Information about KCron

[Nicolas Ternisien]

Hi,

I've just have an idea : Why not converting KCron into a KCM Module
which will fit perfectly in the system-settings application. Of
course, I'm Ok to make this conversion.

My question is : where does the source files will be moved if KCron is
provided with system-settings ?

Second question : Is there anybody who know how to integrate a new
module into system-settings ?

Cheers.

Nicolas Ternisien

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Richard Hartmann
<richih.mailinglist at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 11, 2008 1:54 PM, Nicolas Ternisien <nicolas.ternisien at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>  > I would like to know more about the actual status of KCron.
>  > After a little review of it, it seems to be quite powerful, but some
>  > little things could be improved.
>
>  I did not even know it existed. Neat :)
>
>
>
>  > 2/ Does the Save button is really useful ? I think it should be easier
>  > if the modification are auto-applied, but could be still canceled by
>  > an Undo action (Ctrl+Z)
>
>  Personally, I always hated how regedit would implicitly save everything
>  that was changed. I often create sets of settings which I want to commit
>  in one go. Also, I often play around and, unless I am certain I want to
>  commit my changes, just exit and re-enter to do it right, this time.
>
>  This is especially true as wrong crontabs have the potential to break
>  stuff.
>
>
>
>  > 3/ I think the environment variables and the tasks should be totally
>  > separated in two different list, and the main one could be the tasks
>  > list, of course, because this is the main role of KCron.
>
>  Agreed.
>
>
>
>  > 4/ You have already work on KCron, so I suppose you already thought
>  > about the manner of displaying the next launching date. I don't know
>  > if it will be hard to use the calendar widget or something like that
>  > to graphically display this info. Don't hesitate to inform me about
>  > ideas who had to implement this.
>
>  Actually, you might even want to think about a way to export selected
>  tasks into KDE PIM. Especially with backup tasks, that would be _hugely_
>  useful. You could even go as far as reminding the user to enter a DVD-R,
>  plug in an USB device, connect to the VPN, whatever, for those tasks.
>
>
>
>  > 5/ Finally, I also think that the crontab -e description of start
>  > times should also appear to ensure people who already knows the
>  > crontab syntax.
>
>  Yes.
>
>
>
>  > Thanks for reading this mail.
>
>  No, thank you for working on this :)
>
>
>  Richard
>