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[Jim Nelson <jim@xxxxxxxxx>]

I agree, these are all important considerations.  Perhaps the calendar
application can register itself as "indicator-datetime compatible" with
an X- entry in its .desktop file, indicating that it meets the above
criteria?  Something like this:

X-Unity-Indicator-Datetime-Date: calendar --date %D
X-Unity-Indicator-Datetime-Event: calendar --uid %U

Verbose, and I'm sure more concise key names could be devised, but
hopefully this would satisfy the requirements.  This still requires the
app writer to understand that they have to use EDS as their back-end.
(We have a similar issue with GNOME Shell's calendar, by the way.)

Yes, Yorba is looking at calendar integration.  We've begun a new
project toward that end: http://blogs.gnome.org/jnelson/2014/03/21
/introducing-california-a-new-gnome-3-calendar/  It uses EDS, so we're
good on that point, but we'd need to add command-line support for
opening to a date or an event (which we certainly would make happen if
it would mean Unity integration).

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1308296

Title:
  Allow for other calendar applications to register with Unity calendar
  indicator

Status in “indicator-datetime” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  It appears that Unity's calendar indicator (in the global menu, right-
  side of the screen) is hardwired to launch Evolution if an event is
  selected.  In System Settings, the only checkbox relevant to this is
  to show "Coming events from Evolution Calendar".

  It'd be nice if instead the Unity calendar indicator would launch the
  user's chosen default calendar application.

  I'm not suggesting that the calendar indicator quit using Evolution
  Data Server for calendar information, just which application is
  launched in response to a user event.

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