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

[Peter Nixon]

Ulrich Hopp wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 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.
> But there are no functions in xgnokii to read these entries from a file or
> save them to a file.
> 
> So I'm thinking of implementing these functions .
> 
> Solution 1 could be :
> 
> Writing a plugin for korganizer, which connects with the help of gnokii to
> the phone and synchronizes the phone entries with the korganizer
> 
> Advantage :   ( I didn't dig to deep into it, perhaps I'm wrong and very
> naive here ;-) )
> - all needed function for import/export are present in korganizer
> - may be its easier to write a plugin
> 
> Disadvantage :
> 
> - you must install kde ? ( not every one likes this)
> - you may have problems because in my case the 6310 initialization
> doesn*'t work very well ( Nokia problem ). With xgnokii you only start
> when you got the phone initialized
> 
> Solution 2 :
> 
> integrate this function in xgnokii using the libkcal
> 
> Advantage :
> 
> - you can make use of the functions of libkcal
> - you are not leaving xgnokii
> 
> Disadvantage :
> 
> - you need the Qt libs, license problem ?

I am not going to weigh in on the rest, but on this bit I will bite.
What license problem?? Qt is GPLed same as gnokii...

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