Re: [Ayatana-dev] Indicator datetime changes coming

[Karl Lattimer <karl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 16:24 +0000, Karl Lattimer wrote:
> > 
> > MPT says: "Each event should be presented as an ordinary menu item. The
> > icon for the item should represent what kind of event it is
> > (appointment, meeting, etc), and for calendar events the icon should be
> > tinted depending on which calendar it comes from (Personal, Work, etc)."
> > 
> > In: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TimeAndDate#Coming%20events
> > 
> > So I'm not going to make a judgement here. I'm happy (if we have the
> > right icons) to just mask fill a cairo surface in the right colour and
> > push it off as a pixbuf. 
> 
> On another unrelated note; the spec says:
> 
> "Activating an event’s item should open Evolution to edit that event.
> Activating “Add Event…” should open Evolution Calendar to its interface
> for adding a new appointment."
> 
> However, I don't believe there's an actual way of getting evolution to
> open specific items of any type.

Correction - There is. However, it's undocumented and there may be
issues with grabbing URI's out of ical and using them. 

Some experimentation needed and I'll report my findings later.

BR,
 K