[Gpe-list] Fwd: Patch for gpesummary to start gpecalendar when an alarm occurs

[Graham Cobb]

Andrew Olmsted has sent me a patch for gpesummary to allow it to monitor for 
alarms and start gpe-calendar when an alarm fires.  This would mean it would 
not be necessary to run gpe-calendar all the time (on the Nokia Internet 
Tablets).  The patch is also attached to bug 188.

It seems like a good idea to me.  I propose we implement this and also remove 
the hack from gpe-calendar which means that it does not exit when the close 
button is pressed.  That behaviour is not popular with users.  I'm not sure 
if it is feasible to check whether gpesummary is running and display a 
warning if it is not (and some alarms are set).

Any comments?

Note: I have not tested the patch yet, but Andrew reports that it works well 
(see below).

Graham

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Subject: [lists] Patch for gpesummary to start gpecalendar when an alarm 
occurs
Date: Monday 02 June 2008
From: "Andrew Olmsted" <andrew.olmsted at gmail.com>
To: g+770 at cobb.uk.net

Graham,

I have written a small patch for gpesummary.  The added code monitors
the alarms for the EventDB in the same manner GPE Calendar itself
does.  When there is an alarm that needs to be fired, it sends a top
message through the DBUS to launch gpecalendar.  This DBUS code is the
same function that launches calendar on a click of the event portion
of the applet.

I have tested this patch both with calendar open and closed and it
works as I expect it to.  It was built using
gpesummary_2.8+maemo+svn20080509-2 as source.  I have included in this
email the files built from dpkg-buildpackage (deb, tar, dsc, changes)
and a patch file I created that just changes gpesummary.c as I wasn't
sure which would be most useful.

I hope this proves useful, as with this patch you no longer need to
leave GPE Calendar open to receive alarm notifications.

Thanks,
Andrew

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