[Kde-pim] configuration in akonadi-next

[Daniel Vrátil]

On Thursday, December 18, 2014 12:07:34 AM Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 December 2014 16:39:20 Sandro Knauß wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > > Indeed, and KAccounts makes sense for resources that represent an
> > > account.
> > > Some resources are just local resources, like an iCal file.
> > 
> > because of kio the ical resource also can handle any url, so it is not
> > limited to a local file. And for external urls there you need credentials
> > etc. KAccount makes sense.
> 
> Just because it's possible doesn't mean it's sensible. AFAIK, the whole ical
> file needs to be re-uploaded each time anything is changed in the calender.
> Moreover, concurrent access (which people will inevitably want to use if
> they can remotely access the calender file) is an unsolved problem (->
> conflict resolution).
> 
> IMHO the possibility to configure remote ical file resources should be
> hidden from normal end users. They can still use end user friendly
> dropbox-like file sharing software if they want to use their ical file on
> multiple computers.

Remote ical files make a lot of sense even for normal users, as long as it's 
read only. I would never hide this feature from people, but let's say we could 
just automatically check the "Read only" checkbox once remote URL is detected, 
and show some kind of "Are you sure you know what you are doing" dialog when 
they try to uncheck it.


Dan


> 
> 
> Regards,
> Ingo

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