On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 9:02 AM, todd rme <toddrme2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Mark <mark...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > = Current issue = > > The current digital clock has a calendar, but the default events are > really > > pointless for non usa people. I see the events and i certainly don't > live in > > the usa. So, the data in there has to be a little more focused on where > the > > user lives. For example having the Dutch holidays in it for the Dutch > users. > > German for... you get the idea. > > No, by default the events are from the country in system settings -> > locale Country/Region and Language -> Country. So if you set Germany > there, you will see German holidays. > > Ah right. That does make me wonder why my system thinks i'm in USA.. > > = Issues = > > I'm not a KDE n00b and i have no clue where the current calender events > are > > pulled from or where i can even change them, add them or delete them. > It's > > not visible at all. I would have expected korganizer but to my surprise > that > > is empty. So where is is pulling the events from? > > If you want to change it to your country, just change your country in > the locale (you have to restart plasma for the changes to take > effect). If you want something other than your locale country, > right-click on the clock -> Digital Clock Settings -> Calender. There > you can enable or disable as many holidays as you want. > I see what you mean. Sadly this functionality seems to be broken? I can't select/change/delete any holiday that's in there. I even turned "display events" off. That results in.. events/holidays being displayed. Seems like the display events checkbox isn't honored. > > > = make it yourself: holidays.kde.org = > > No, that domain doesn't work (yet) ;) > > Since there is no free holiday API, but all the data is freely available > on > > the internet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_holidays_by_country > why > > not make a holiday system where users can contribute the holidays. So i > for > > example can add all the dutch holidays, someone can review and check > that i > > didn't fill in bogus data and done. Dutch holidays are in the system. > This > > system then needs an API (REST perhaps?) where you can request all > holidays > > by (or a mixture of) year/country/month/day something like that. Make the > > web API publicly and freely available for anyone to use. > > There is already a holidays API, and people already can and do submit > holidays for different countries to KDE. > Please do tell more. > > > = Integrate holidays.kde.org with organizer or akonadi (or nepomuk?.. i > lost > > it) = > > Lets for the moment make the assumption that this data is PIM data thus > > akonadi is the one where this should be stored. Organizer should > interface > > with akonadi. I could be mixing up the akonadi and nepomuk names now. If > so, > > please do correct me. Either way, the API of holidays.kde.org should be > used > > to fetch and store the users country holidays in his local PIM database > > which should show up in KOrganizer (as a seperate calendar) and that > should > > show up in the digital clock calendar. That seems logical to me. > > Korganizer can already use the API. Go to Settings -> Configure > Korganizer -> Time and Date -> Regional -> Use Holiday Region. It > doesn't appear to use your country by default, though. > ehh, oke. It "kinda" works but work is definitively needed to make KOrganizer be intuitive. > > -Todd > So, the systems all do "seem" to be in place. It's just seems to be haunted by a couple of nasty bugs.