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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] Planned fixes for KOrganizer in KDE 3.2
From:       Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-09-07 10:24:20
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On Sunday 07 September 2003 07:38, Guenter Schwann wrote:
> On Saturday 06 September 2003 23:15, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> > On Saturday 06 September 2003 19:28, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> > > I'd say certainly not the latter. How is the user supposed to
> > > know that an event in KOrganizer is stored in a remote file? How
> > > about having the whole calendar on ftp or webdav?
> > >
> > > For those that have their std calendar on ftp or so and access it
> > > from multiple computers, we should always download the latest
> > > version of the file. However, for things like hot stuff this is
> > > not needed.
> > >
> > > Maybe we could a setting for remote resources which give the
> > > maximum time after which the calendar is downloaded again? If you
> > > set this to 7 days, the calendar is downloaded only every week,
> > > and in between the cached file is used. Two extreme cases are:
> > > always download (0 days/mins/secs) and never download (inf days).
> >
> > Yes, that's what I planned to add anyway. The problem with the
> > alarm daemon is that the file might be downloaded twice, if
> > KOrganizer and the alarm daemon run both. On the other hand, if
> > they both use the same cache file, we could prevent this.
>
> Wouldn't it be best to let the resource do the caching? This way no
> application has to care about it.

Sure, but there are still two instances of the resource object, one in 
KOrganizer and the other in the alarm daemon. There is currently no way 
how they could share one object in memory as these are two separate 
processes.

-- 
Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher@kde.org>
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