Re: Request for comments, Save and Read Calendar files in vcal format

[Peter Nixon]

Pawel Kot wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Ulrich Hopp wrote:
> 
>> at the moment I can't help Pawel with the calendar problems because I
>> can't save my business calendar entrys to the phone ( Nokia/win2000
>> problem).
>> ( in my privat calendar I have only  a few entrys ), but there is a Gnu
>> Win2000 program called outport, which can export Outlook calendar entries
>> to vcal format.
> 
> Oh, I made my tests doing the multible inserts with gnokii. Something
> like:
> for i in `seq 1 700`; do sed -e s/@XXX@/$i/ < cal.template | gnokii
> --writecalendar
> 
>> But there are no functions in xgnokii to read these entries from a file
>> or save them to a file.
> 
> You can do it with gnokii for sure.
> 
> [idea1]
>> Writing a plugin for korganizer, which connects with the help of gnokii
>> to the phone and synchronizes the phone entries with the korganizer
> 
> [idea2]
>> integrate this function in xgnokii using the libkcal
> 
> I'd prefer another solution ;-) I'd like to have general support for this
> in libgnokii. I mean: we should have some functions in API that allow
> import/export in some generic format (vCal/vCard seems to be a good
> format). There are for sure some well known generic ways to exchange such
> information between applications (SyncML?). Once this is recognized, and
> we have the generic support in libgnokii, we could start think of adding
> such functionality into xgnokii or even writing stand alone application.
> 
> What I'd like to avoid is writing extra driver (or plugin) for every
> application that may take an advantage of communicating with gnokii (so I
> say no to linking with libkcal).
> 
> I hope it is clear enough, if not I'll try to elaborate more.
> 
> pkot

Is anyone communicating with the Kandy developers??
http://kandy.kde.org/

Personally I much prefer KDE and I use all the other pim applications with
kde (They are much better now in KDE 3.1) I would love to see KDE able to
sync transparently with Gnokii (At the moment you have to do an export from
your phone and an import into kaddressbook)
This doesnt mean that gnokii necessarily has to link to any kde apps, but at
least we should be talking to them so things go in the same general
direction to make life easy on everyone.


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