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

[From: Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente]

Yes, if opensync support is easy to do, it could be used from alpha versions.

Is there python support for opensync??

2007/1/16, Ross Burton <ross at burtonini.com>:
> On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 09:05 +0100, Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente
> wrote:
> > Just an idea/plan:
> >
> > FIRST STAGE (alpha version)
> > 1) Create a pytgtk app that asks the user for its google-calendar
> > account details and stores them in the device.
> > 2) When internet connection is available (or when user requests it),
> > it should download ical files. Perhaps it would be better using some
> > kind of sync mechanism to check updates
> > 3) The app could add the ical files to EDS, or just show them as a list
> > 4) There should be a nice calendar home applet to show this data.
> >
> > SECOND STAGE (beta edition)
> > 1) Add sync capabilities with phone calendar using opensync or perhaps
> > funambol. This way is ok for having google-phone-770 calendars synced.
> >
> > THIRD STAGE (release candidate)
> > 1) Create methods to create new events in the calendar and a way to
> > sync this changes with google and phone calendar.
>
> Leaving creation of events until RC is risky, as you'll probably end up
> rewriting the entire application to handle that.
>
> Note that Dates + OpenSync can do bidirectional syncing from Google
> Calendar to EDS on the desktop, so doing the same on the 770 would
> involve building opensync.  The synchronisation methods in eds-dbus have
> not been tested, but if they are broken they should be trivial to fix.
>
> Ross
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