Re: [Evolution-hackers] Extending the save-calendar plugin

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo novell com>]

On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 17:04 -0500, JP Rosevear wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 20:09 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > Since I've rewritten most of the save-calendar plugin, I've been playing
> > with some idea's for it.
> > 
> > One of those idea's is the possibility to let the user define a simple
> > query on the data which will, for the user, decide what calendar items
> > are going to be exported to the specified format.
> > 
> > It could, for example, let the user decide if only items between two
> > specific hours and only during the weekdays need to be exported to an
> > offline fileformat.
> > 
> > Why I want to do this is rather simple to explain: My employer likes
> > timesheets. But I don't want my employer to know which meetings I've
> > scheduled with my girlfriend :-). (well, thats my personal reason)
> > 
> > My current and a simple solution is to create multiple local calendars.
> > But very often I forget about this and created all the calendar-items of
> > a certain period in my life on the same logical calendar.
> > 
> > The reason my I'm mailing this is: in case I'd build such a query
> > userinterface and extend the save-calendar in such a way, would it ever
> > get accepted by Evolution? The reason why I ask it first is because I
> > can, for my own purposes, create simpeler filtering scripts to
> > filter-out specific calendaring items from my personal calendar-exports.
> 
> What about just exporting all items in the current view as an option?
> That way the user can do what ever search they want.  Doesn't lend
> itself well to searches > 6 weeks I guess, but something to consider.
> 
well, it could use the data in the search bar and allow the user to
select "shown time range" or "all", and thus it can be used for all
cases.
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo novell com>