[MeeGo-dev] KCal-EDS: Support local calendar creation

[Rusty Lynch]

On 06/09/2011 05:44 AM, Ohly, Patrick wrote:
> On Do, 2011-06-09 at 13:10 +0100, Dumez, Christophe wrote:
>    
>> Could you please review the attached patch that implements local
>> calendar creation in KCal-EDS?
>>
>> The apps need to call
>> EStorage::localStorage(KCalCore::IncidenceBase::IncidenceType type,
>> const QString&id, bool create)
>> instead of defaultStorage(KCalCore::IncidenceBase::IncidenceType type)
>> to get a local calendar storage.
>>
>> If the "create" parameter is set to false and the local storage
>> identified by "id" does not exist, the method will fail and return a
>> NULL pointer.
>> The ECal uri is generated from the id provided by the caller as
>> follows: "local:<id>".
>>      
> Looks good to me.
>
> Emma, this is meant to be used in the Clocks app.
>
> Rusty, Ross, note that the created databases are not registered in gconf
> and thus can't be discovered via libebook. That may or may not be
> desirable. For the Clock app, we certainly don't want Evolution to show
> the calendar with the "private" events.
>
> But how is the alarm notification going to find the private database?
>
> One possibility is that we establish the convention that local:clock is
> the "Clock database", similar to local:system which already (as defined
> by EDS) is the system calendar. Then the alarm service can simply watch
> these two databases, either because its hard-coded or configured
> somewhere.
>    

Using the local:clock (and also local:task) convention sounds like a 
fine solution to me.

     --rusty