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Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] importing a .vcs file into active calendar on click
From:       Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-09-05 20:55:42
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On Thursday 05 September 2002 10:13, Daniel Molkentin wrote:
> On Thursday 05 September 2002 00:41, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> > If you are talking about mail attachements, these should be
> > automatically forwarded to the KOrganizer iMIP import. This has all
> > the features necessary to deal with this kind of data in a
> > reasonable and safe way.
>
> You mean using korganizerIn? The problem is that sometimes those
> files are not attached but referenced as URL..

korganizerIn is an interim solution. It should be replaced by something 
better as soon as possible. Of course we should also handle URL 
references.

> > > I am curious, which situations did you think of?
> >
> > If you have multiple calendars it might be convenient to be able to
> > view them by clicking on them in Konqueror. Another example would
> > be, if somebody sends you a complete calendar as attachement of a
> > mail. You don't want to import it into your calendar without being
> > able to look at the data being imported, do you?
>
> What's more likely? Someone sending you a single appointment or
> someone sending you a complete calendar? Face it: Joe User will use
> his single calendar and wants to import new Dates in 99% of all
> cases...

I don't think that many people are willing to import data into their 
personal calendar without looking at that data before.

> So lets come to the practical side again: I suggest adding a dcop
> signal and the default action should be to ask the user wether he
> wants to merge it with the active caldendar (is there anything
> flagging a calendar as "active"?) or wants to open the contents in a
> new calendar view.

What do you mean by DCOP signal? We have a DCOP call which merges a 
calendar into KOrganizer, if you would like to extend this to be able 
to show a warning dialog, feel free to make a patch, but the real 
solution would be something different, I suppose. I don't really 
understand your motivation for this import feature. If you want to do 
iMIP we have to implement this correctly with the help of KMail, if you 
talk about showing whole third-party calendars, the automatic import 
doesn't make sense to me. 

-- 
Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher@kde.org>
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