[Kde-pim] Status of calender ical directory resource

[Kevin Krammer]

Hi Martin,

On Thursday, 2014-03-27, 14:04:14, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I always liked the approach of the contacts resource, to use a directory of
> vcf files instead of a single file, but found that my calendar was still
> using a single file in the traditional location
> ~/.kde/share/apps/korganizer/std.ics which was about 7 MiB already. I do
> journal entries in my calendar as well and sometimes attach files to
> appointments I like to include within the calendar itself.
> 
> I thought that it would be nice to have this as folder of ics files as well.
> And found this to be possible with akonadi_icaldir_resource.
> 
> Now I have a few question regarding this:
> 
> 1) Why isn´t it used?

You mean as a default?

> It avoids writing a complete 7 MB file on adding an
> appointment (even if its delayed somewhat by internal caching). I think its
> also safer as modifying an event just write to one single event file and
> there is no risk to loose other events (due to incomplete writing of
> std.ics file).

Right.

> 2) What is the status of it, is it considered supported and stable? More on
> my findings about this in a moment.

No idea, but since it is part of the module it should be fixed if it is not.

> 3) Why can I not set a name for it like with ical file resource? I can set a
> name in Korganizer, but not in Akonadiconsole via "Configure Natively".
> Consequently it shows as akonadi_icaldir_resource_0 in Akonadiconsole
> instead of the name I set for it in Korganizer. Is this just a missing
> feature?

Most likely. Probably just doesn't save the name when it gets a new one.

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