[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Maemo alarms ==> retutime

[From: Michael P. Lococo]

>>>> I think what Chris, me and others are really looking for is the alarm
>>>> framework for application notification, not the mere RTC alarm.
>>>
>>> There is no alarm framework
>>
>> I would have expected such framework after the longish discussions on
>> the mailinglist some time ago (effectively more than half a year ago).
>
> Since there isn't any calendar application in the 2006 software edition,
> management didn't really prioritise a sane alarm interface.

There is is substantial user demand, though, and there are three different
community-based or third-party calendaring applications that are all
hamstrung by the lack of an alarm facility.  It seems fairly clear at this
point that:

1) The need for an alarm framework is not a passing fancy.
2) In order to be done sanely, it must be centralized... either as a
single community project or as a Nokia supported part of the product. 
Applications cannot reasonably be expected to handle it without tripping
over each other and killing battery life with polling.

Mike