On Monday 05 April 2010, Frederik Gladhorn wrote: > Hi all, > > I just noticed that now - with KDE SC 4.4, I have a working Akonadi > Calendar. Which by itself is pretty awesome of course. But wouldn't it be > even ++aweseome if that was connected to my plasma-clock-foldout-calendar?
not only awesome, is a mst have :) > So I set down and poked our pimsters and got all the info I need in order > to write a data engine for the calendar. I'm good to go on the Akonadi > part. > > Now I'd like to have a few comments: > > There are two data engines that could be extended towards this. Or I could > start a new one of course... > > Calendar - this one uses queries like "isHoliday:region:date" and gives > information about individual holidays. (btw - it seems completely > undocumented, so you'd need to look into the source in order to find out > what valid requests are. Is not using api dox a good idea? Or is it > documented somewhere else?) > > The other one is the Akonadi dataengine which doesn't care about calendars > yet. On the other hand it already links to Akonadi. > It has emails, microblogging and contacts as data. > This one uses "ContactCollection-id" so the separators are ':' and '-'. I > guess there is no rule about this at all, so every data engine just comes > up with it's own string concatenation scheme? i think the akonadi dataengine would be the place to go > > For my purpose I'd rather use a date range to query calendar events. > So I'd suggest parameters like: > * start date (maybe like the current Calendar engine - iso: yyyy-mm-dd) > * end date > * optional a filter for types - this can be one of: event/todo/journal - is > this useful? also in the query the time could be useful (for plasmoids that show more detailed data than the calendar for instance), perhaps a qdatetime? > Returned would be maps with: > start date-time, end date-time, summary, long description, location and > type > > Is anyone up to changing the current calendar? It would need at least more > colored squares and tooltips (which would also be nice for the current > holidays). not sure for 4.5, probably not, but can be done yes (if somebody is willing to take it earlier would be happy tough :p) Cheers, Marco Martin _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
