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

[Graham Cobb]

Comments from Joe...

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Subject: [lists] Re: [Gpe-list] Fwd: Patch for gpesummary to start gpecalendar 
when an alarm occurs
Date: Monday 02 June 2008
From: "Joseph McCarthy" <jjmcc at pitt.edu>
To: "Graham Cobb" <g+gpe at cobb.uk.net>

I no longer use GPE on a handheld machine (alas, my h5000 was not supported
so well anymore by any distro and I turned to the darkside and got myself an
iphone), however that "not really exiting" hack was mine and I was never
very proud of it ;)

When I *did* use GPE on my desktop, that hack worked OK since it simply
minimized the window, but the testing I was able to do on my h5000 was not a
great experience (matchbox handled my pseudo-close in a weird way relative
to my desktop). Anyhow, my point is that as long as this works "mostly" it
has to be better than what I had put into the code.

My $0.02 from a (mostly) ex-GPE-er,

Joe

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Graham Cobb
<g+gpe at cobb.uk.net<g%2Bgpe at cobb.uk.net>>
wrote:

> 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 <g%2B770 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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