Re: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 23:43 +0200, Seif Lotfy wrote:
>         
>         > Clocks: The clocks app is designed by the GNOME designers.
>         It is still more
>         > or less a prototype I am working on alongside Emily Gonyer.
>         We wanted to
>         > make use of Zeitgeist in storing "Alarms" as a type of
>         "scheduled event", it
>         > sounds like shoehorning but it is not. I am just hesitant
>         because I myself
>         > as a GNOME member do not want to use a technology or force
>         integrate it
>         > without GNOME agreeing of the usage of Zeitgeist.
>         
>         
>         It might help for you to elaborate why Zeitgeist is needed
>         there.
>         Clocks is intended to be a really simple application.
>         
> 
> 
> We need to be able to store Alarms. And those alarms should still work
> while the clocks application is closed. For that we need a central
> storage for the scheduled event which is the alarm, to notify all
> subscribers including Shell that an alarm went off. Same would go for
> timers. What do you think? 

I think that somebody with a hammer sees every problem as a nail. You
don't need to store alarms in Zeitgeist, you need to store the fact that
the alarm went off in Zeitgeist.