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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Chinese lunar calender support and improvement for existing
From:       LiuCougar <liucougar () gmail ! com>
Date:       2005-05-03 2:24:34
Message-ID: 95580678050502192453a81823 () mail ! gmail ! com
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I just looked at the sources of CalendarDecoration. It seems to me
that, when Jewish plugin is enabled, only the current day can be
attached with its corresponding Jewish date, right?

Ideally, like in paper based Chinese calendar, I'd like to add these
info directly to the KDatePicker, so each day will have its
corresponding chinese lunar date displayed as well, not only the
current day which has the info displayed in another widget (the main
widget on the right of korganizor).

Do you think this request is reasonable?

On 5/3/05, LiuCougar <liucougar@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/2/05, Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher@kde.org> wrote:
> > On Friday 29 April 2005 18:57, LiuCougar wrote:
> > >
> > > Do you think it is necessary to split the core to a dedicated
> > > library? AFAICT, KCalendarSystemJalali (shipped with kdelibs) does
> > > not rely on any other libraries, or am I wrong?
> >
> > I don't think it's necessary to put the code into a separate library.
> Thanks. the core of chinese calendar is almost done in a sub-class of
> KCalendarSystem.
> 
> > > This plugin seems to handle holidays itself. Do you think it is
> > > better to sub-class KHolidays or use this kind of hardcoded one?
> >
> > It depends a bit on how the Chinese calendar is usually used. It is used
> > in parallel to a Gregorian calendar or is it used as only calendar? If
> > it is used in parallel, it probably is the easiest way to write a
> > CalendarDecoration plugin.
> It is used along side with Gregorian calendar: each calendar sold in
> China (I mean real calendar, paper based) marks each day with its
> correponding chinese calendar date. Now I will move on to investigate
> the CalendarDecoration plugin and try to implement user interface for
> the chinese calendar. Any suggestions?
> 
> I think the chinese calendar core should be implemented in a
> KCalendarSystem, while the user interface should be based on a plugin
> system (CalendarDecoration)
> 
> > > The idea of "Extending KDatePicker" is what I am looking for: with
> > > this kind of capability, it is possible to add extra info to a date,
> > > such as the name of the chinese lunar day, and some other important
> > > date for a users: say parents' birthday :)
> >
> > Exactly :-)
> I hope this capability is built-in into the kdelibs (say KDatePicker),
> which you can set  it up to display some extra info using a specified
> plugin (it may be desired if the plugins can be cascaded...): the user
> can specify a plugin (say from kontact), to display important days the
> user created, or use a plugin to supply info for chinese calendar, so
> that when I left click the clock applet in kicker, I will find a
> calendar containing all the useful info in a real chinese calendar.
> 
> I assume KDatePicker has to have some plugin-based mechanism in order
> to handle this. How do you think this should be done? Define a KPart?
> Or add support of CalendarDecoration to KDatePicker?
> 
> Regards,
> Cougar
> --
> "People's characters are strengthened through struggle against
> difficulties; they are weakened by comfort."
> - Old Chinese adage
> 


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