From kde-pim Fri Jul 05 08:55:44 2002 From: Cornelius Schumacher Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2002 08:55:44 +0000 To: kde-pim Subject: Re: [Kde-pim] [PATCH] Korganizer Exchange 2000 Patch X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-pim&m=102585943205326 On Friday 05 July 2002 10:19, Best, Jan-Pascal van wrote: > > Here's an status update on the exchange 2000 plugin: > - Read appointments from an Exchange 2000 server. > - Handle recurrent appointments (no exception handling yet) > - Handle full-day events > - Write a single event to the server. Only a few fields are written > as of yet: start time, end time, alldayevent, free/busy, description, > summary, location. Missing most ostensably is recurrence. That's already quite a lot of functionality. Great. > - Writing to the server always creates a new event on the server. > The uid isn't checked, so even if the event is downloaded from the > server in the first place, a new one is created when uploading! Is there a workaround of this problem? > Can somebody take a look at this so I can check it in, or should I do > that > anyway to make it easier for more people to take a look at? I would say, check it in. Perhaps we should disable compilation by default for now, so that compiling kdepim doesn't need the latest kdelibs or add a proper configure check. We also need a way to disable plugins in KOrganizer, so that it isn't loaded for people not interested in talking to an Exchange server, but we can add this later. Another comment: some files doesn't seem to be readable by all. It would be good to fix the file permissions before checking in. > For the longer term, I see three possibilities: > 1. Keep it as a plugin. That's the easiest one. As the plugin already exists, I think we should also keep it in the future. > 2. Implement it as a Calendar, so that korganizer can work > directly on an Exchange calendar. I'm not sure if korganizer > and the Calendar framework are up to that, though. For instance, > does korganizer walk through the entire calendar sometimes? That > would be uncool on a calendar on an exchange server... The framework definitely needs some work before we can smoothly integrate server-based calendars, but in the long term this probably is the way to go. > 3. Implement it as a Konnector in the kitchensync/ksync framework. > I haven't following the discussion about this, would that be doable > now? This would allow to sync a local calendar with an exchange server. Sounds like a useful feature, but I doubt that the syncing framework is ready for that now. Perhaps a feature for 3.2? > Last question: is it possible to put the exchange plugin on the feature > list for KDE 3.1/3.2/4.0? The feature plan for 3.1 is already closed, but I don't think it's a problem to add the plugin for 3.1. This shouldn't break anything. We need a way to disable it by default though. The Calendar implementation would be a nice feature for 3.2. -- Cornelius Schumacher _______________________________________________ kde-pim mailing list kde-pim@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-pim kde-pim home page at http://pim.kde.org/