[Kde-pim] Jewish Calendar plug-in

[Allen Winter]

On Tuesday 03 March 2009 3:06:18 am Shai Berger wrote:
> Hi Pimsters,
> 
> It seems the Jewish Calendar plug-in needs a little care, and I intend to give 
> it some. The problems I am aware of are:
> 
> * Bug 149614: Recurring events on Hebrew calender 
> * Bug 181110: Hebrew calendar plugin: print Hebrew dates when exporting
>               calendar to HTML
> * (At least in English locale) Month view does not show hebrew calendar
> * (At least in English locale) Show above/below (from configuration) applies
>   to the Gregorian info, Jewish stays below
> 
> Is anyone maintaining this plug-in? I could not find KDE mailng-list messages 
> about it later than 2004, and the svn log shows very little activity after 
> 2007. 
> 
No.  I'd be very happy to have you pick it up.

> Besides a maintainer, do you have any other pointers/suggestions before I 
> plunge in? a korganizer plug-in writer's guide? KResource/Akonadi 
> considerations? I have made some minor UI fixes to KOrganizer in the 4.1 
> period, but I'm not very fluent with its architecture, so any help would be 
> appreciated.
> 
Nope. Just plunge in.  Akonadi shouldn't have any affect.

The very hard part is the calendar decorations in the monthview.
I played with putting the Jewish calendar and holidays on the monthview
using calendar decorations and it was terribly ugly.  Maybe you'll have
better luck.  I even have some  code laying around I can send you.

There are some comments in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171312
you should read.  Basically, I think we need to deal separately with the idea of
a second calendar system superimposed over the gregorian calendar.

Also, showing the Jewish holidays should be possible without having to display
the entire Jewish calendar.

Bottom line: I really want a general solution to 2 problems:
1) display multiple calendar systems at one time (in monthview)
2) displaying religious holidays, especially those that go by a
non-gregorian based calendar system

Ideally the computation of 2) should go into the KHolidays library in kdepimlibs.

Well.. anyway these are some of my random babbling thoughts and the
reason not much work has been done on the Jewish Calendar stuff for a long time.

-Allen, KOrganizer Maintainer


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