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

[Lars Persson Fink]

I agree with Gary. But it would be even better if it was integrated
with Maemo alarm framework.

Thanks for all hard work.

/Lars

On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:57:19 -0400
Gary Baribault <gary at baribault.net> wrote:

> Sounds great, specially if we can test for summary being open when we 
> close the calendar.
> 
> Gary B
> 
> 
> 
> Graham Cobb 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
> >
> > ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> >
> > 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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