[Kde-pim] Implementation of KHolidays in Calendar

[Mark]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Kevin Krammer <krammer at kde.org> wrote:

> 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?
>

Yes certainly! But it lacks things that my components make very easy to do.
For example, constructing the entire month data grid is something my
components just give but will have to be done manually when the DataEngine
is used.

>
> Cheers,
> Kevin
> --
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