[Kde-pim] iCalendar semantic

[Kevin Krammer]

On Monday, 2014-03-17, 17:10:10, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-03-17 at 16:53 +0100, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > On Monday, 2014-03-17, 16:46:26, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2014-03-17 at 15:24 +0100, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > > > On Monday, 2014-03-17, 15:15:17, Christian Mollekopf wrote:
> > > > > Sure, if the resource can automatically fix the problem and this
> > > > > doesn't
> > > > > lead to unexpected side effects that is a possibility. I think it
> > > > > should
> > > > > be
> > > > > avoided as far as possible because you'd want the correction to
> > > > > immediately
> > > > > happen. Otherwise e.g. an invalid event gets modified at some random
> > > > > point
> > > > > in time (when the resource tries to synchronize), instead of when
> > > > > the
> > > > > user
> > > > > modified the event, and IMO that results in a rather unexpected user
> > > > > experience.
> > > > 
> > > > Sure. I was mainly thinking about the case when a new item is added
> > > > and
> > > > the
> > > > resource finds a UID collision. It would then modify the UID before
> > > > writing to the backend and modify the item accordingly.
> > > 
> > > Modifying the UID would lead to duplicates in the calendar. I don't
> > > think that's the right solution.
> > 
> > Well, a copy operation's goal is to create a duplicate, no?
> 
> No. The goal is to import a certain event once

Right, but that is a different operation than an item copy, which is what I 
had in mind for a case when changing an UID on the resource side might be 
necessary.

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