I agree, these are all important considerations. Perhaps the calendar application can register itself as "indicator-datetime compatible" with an X- entry in its .desktop file, indicating that it meets the above criteria? Something like this:
X-Unity-Indicator-Datetime-Date: calendar --date %D X-Unity-Indicator-Datetime-Event: calendar --uid %U Verbose, and I'm sure more concise key names could be devised, but hopefully this would satisfy the requirements. This still requires the app writer to understand that they have to use EDS as their back-end. (We have a similar issue with GNOME Shell's calendar, by the way.) Yes, Yorba is looking at calendar integration. We've begun a new project toward that end: http://blogs.gnome.org/jnelson/2014/03/21 /introducing-california-a-new-gnome-3-calendar/ It uses EDS, so we're good on that point, but we'd need to add command-line support for opening to a date or an event (which we certainly would make happen if it would mean Unity integration). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to indicator-datetime in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1308296 Title: Allow for other calendar applications to register with Unity calendar indicator Status in “indicator-datetime” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: It appears that Unity's calendar indicator (in the global menu, right- side of the screen) is hardwired to launch Evolution if an event is selected. In System Settings, the only checkbox relevant to this is to show "Coming events from Evolution Calendar". It'd be nice if instead the Unity calendar indicator would launch the user's chosen default calendar application. I'm not suggesting that the calendar indicator quit using Evolution Data Server for calendar information, just which application is launched in response to a user event. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-datetime/+bug/1308296/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
