[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Discussion of a possible project - offline calendar project

[From: Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente]

It would be nice having gdeskcal (or better gdesklets) support in 770...

2007/1/15, Martin Grimme <mgrimme at online.de>:
> Hi,
>
> Mathias Uebelacker schrieb:
> > Well here some thoughts from my project sheet:
> >
> > - which language should be used ( C, Python...)
> > - how should the data stored (database, file ...)
> > - should the application interacts with osso applications (Adressbook, email)
> > - limitation of the screen size (N770)
> > - look and feel like the original ??
> > - exchange with the google calendar (import/export)
> > - language files (for each user his or her language)
> > - and and and
>
> This sounds really interesting. I know that there are already
> applications like dates or GPE-calendar for the N770 but both
> don't fit my needs. Since my idea was to write some sort of
> PIM suite specially for the 770 in the near future, maybe we
> should join efforts.
>
> I have written software for the 770 in C (Ogg Vorbis Player) and Python
> (Obscura Photo Manager) and have to say that Python wins for big
> applications, IMHO. Development is much faster and the code usually
> more clear and stable than with C. So I'd vote for Python.
>
> One of my first opensource projects was the desktop calendar gDeskCal
> (http://www.pycage.de/#gdeskcal), so I have some experience with reading
> iCalendar files.
>
> > If there some developer which will start these project with me let me know. If we can build a Team i will ask the garage-team to host that project so that we ca
> > n start the work.
>
> Sure, why not? :)
>
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
>
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