[Kde-pim] Implementation of KHolidays in Calendar

[Kevin Krammer]

On Wednesday, 2013-07-31, Mark wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:25 AM, John Layt <john at layt.net> wrote:

> > Hi Mark,
> > 
> > I'm still not clear on exactly what Heena's project is here, is she
> > writing QML Plasmoids for use in Plasma, or is she writing QML
> > Components for general
> > use in KDEPIM and othe places?  If Heena is recreating the official
> > Plasma Calendar with the same functionality, using Plasma classes, which
> > lives in Plasma and is only used by Plasma, then surely she should be
> > using the official
> > Plasma way of accessing data, i.e. the DataEngines?  If the intention is
> > to use it as a generic QML componant in places like KDEPIM then that's a
> > different
> > story and it shouldn't be called a Plasmoid or use Plasma classes or
> > resources
> > or be living in Plasma.
> 
> I don't fully know that either, but heres as far as i understand it. Heena
> has been tasked (or given herself the task?) to rewrite some plasmoids in
> QML. The clock applet is one of them. There Heena has to have a calendar +
> events which my components make very easy to do. I have absolutely no clue
> if that's how it should be done for a port to QML and if it would be
> accepted by the plasma folks at all.
> 
> As for using plasma DataEngines. Those only give you calendar events, no
> full calendar or the structure of it anyway so just using the DataEngines
> won't cut it.

Well, the data provided by the engines seem to be good for the current 
implementation of the Plasma Applet, no?

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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