[Kde-pim] SoC project: KOrganizer theming improvements

[Allen Winter]

On Wednesday 23 May 2007 7:43:54 pm Loïc Corbasson wrote:
> Am jeudi 24 mai 2007 schrieb Allen Winter:

> >  + This Day in History viewer (uses Wikipedia's Selected Anniversaries)
> >
> >    : might be a problem for non-English folks because the URL has
> >
> >      the language encoded (i.e, en.wikipedia.org/September_3)
> >      NOTE: amarok has an Artist tab that downloads wikipedia info
> >            so maybe we can steal some code from amarok?
> 
> 'This Day in History' being rather long, I suppose you would put this into a 
> widget in the side panel? 
Yep.

> The main question I'm thinking about all this is  
> how to cache the files -- we for sure do not want to download the data over 
> and over again -- so I'll have a look at how Amarok does this.
> The language-dependent part doesn't worry me a lot -- getting the localized 
> string should be doable automagically for most languages, as my laptop 
> shows "3 septembre" (fr) and my former laptop showed "3. September" (de), 
> which are exactly the strings used by Wikipedia. There might be exceptions 
> though.
OK.

> 
> >  + Comics: i.e, show a daily Dilbert comic
> 
> Would be great, but may be legally not feasible :( We would have to ask, and 
> I'm not very optimistic [4].
> 
True.  these are just my crazy ideas.

> 
> > 3. There are some ideas from web-based calendars I think are good.
> > eGroupware calendar for example.  But I forgot them now.
> > You might want to do a review of some web-based calendars.
> 
> Ok, I'll have a deeper look -- I have Horde at the university, and it doesn't 
> seem original on this front, so I didn't think of Web-based apps.
> 
Yes, forget I mentioned the web-based stuff.
I was mainly thinking about navigation and data entry ideas.


-Allen
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