[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Maemo Alarm/Notifier Interface

[From: Florian Boor]

Hi,

Simon Budig wrote:
> I'd love to have an API call that enqueues an alarm at a specific time
> (maybe even with a specific sound, but I doubt that it should provide
> any dialog facilities, that would make it quite complex) that calls back
> into the application via dbus. That would make it possible to disable
> alarms globally (similiar to the flight mode - a "cinema mode"  :) and
> would enable a list of scheduled alarms, regardless of the application
> that scheduled it.

Two very good ideas, that would make it fit into the concept of Maemo in a much
better way.

> You'd have to hack a lot around crontab to enable all this and I doubt
> that would be significantly less error prone than implementing that
> stuff e.g. in the Desktop application or a new demon specific to that
> task.

Thats true, it would be good to have some compatibility between these mechanisms
on a PC and mobile devices, but the usecases are that different. For GPE we use
a modified atd to take care about waking up suspended devices and triggering
alerts. The advantage is that it makes use of hardware capabilities (no
polling!) and offers the same capabilities like on a PC. Of course we have a
library which offeres an API to use this feature from applications. Maybe the
same can be done with cron, but i'm still not convinced that this is a good idea.

Greetings

Florian

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