Making calendar decorations reusable between calendar implementations (was: Re: September/October KDE PIM summary blog post)

[Wang Gary]

Hi and thanks for the update!

I might missed the previous email so sorry about the late response.

> Restoring and enhancing the calendar decoration feature might turn into a
> long term project. An developing idea for the future would be to make
> these decoration plugins generic enough to also be usable from other
> calendaring solutions...

By saying "Restoring" does it means we did have calendar decoration
feature in older KDE versions? I did a quick search with "calendar
decoration KDE" as keywords but seem don't find anything related.
Is there are any link or documentation related to this? I'd like to take
a look so I could know if it can be used to achieve the Alternative
Calendar System use-case :)

> From some research on Internet it seems that China isn't the only country
> with a western and a traditional calendar used side by side

I don't know too much about other calendar systems but according to
the documentation I found for other calendar products [1], it is probably
correct.

> That use-case of showing non-western calendars mapped into the gregorian
> calendar view was not yet explicit part of my list , thanks for sharing the
> links. The write-up document linked there also definitely extended my views.

About the alternative calendar system use-case, I'd like to provide any
additional information if needed, just let me know and I'll try my best
to help :D

Nicolas Fella did comment about some possible options on the related
bugzilla page [2], not sure if the 2nd option they mentioned is related
to the calendar decoration feature.

[1]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iwEwwK9w34ZKOegb8xcecO4u2Pjgv2e7ifXMFKox62Q/edit?usp=sharing
[2]: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=429892#c2

Cheers,
Gary

Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau at kde.org> 于2021年11月1日周一 下午11:46写道：
>
> Hi (also to Wang Gary :) ),
>
> Am Montag, 25. Oktober 2021, 00:48:55 CET schrieb Carl Schwan:
> > On Saturday, October 23, 2021 11:18:03 PM CEST Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
> wrote:
> > > Restoring and enhancing the calendar decoration feature might turn into a
> > > long term project. An developing idea for the future would be to make
> > > these
> > > decoration plugins generic enough to also be usable from other calendaring
> > > solutions, like Plasma calendar widgets or apps like Kalendar. There
> > > surely
> > > are lots of use-cases for all kind of context information or actions users
> > > might want to have shown or available on their digital calendar to match
> > > their respective interests & needs. Reusable plugins would help here, e.g.
> > > with consistency across the products and with no need for reimplementation
> > > for each individual product.
> >
> > Calendar decoration is indeed a very nice idea. A while ago following
> > my rewrite of the Plasma Calendar applet a Chinese user (Gary Wang)
> > contacted me with an interesting feature request. He wanted to add the
> > lunar Chinese calendar side by side with the gregorian calendar since as
> > far I understood they use both in China. He already add a fork of the
> > Plasma Calendar applet with this feature but it is hardcoded [1].
> >
> > From some research on Internet it seems that China isn't the only country
> > with a western and a traditional calendar used side by side, so implementing
> > this feature generically would be nice. I added him as CC.
> >
> > I can try next weekend to try to look in that would be needed to have the
> > decoration feature available in the Plasma Calendar applet and Kalendar.
>
> Sorry for not getting back earlier, got kept busy by other things, and have to
> try hard this week to even get the current MRs as described before for the
> Sep/Oct blog post dressed up in time for 21.12.
>
> That use-case of showing non-western calendars mapped into the gregorian
> calendar view was not yet explicit part of my list , thanks for sharing the
> links. The write-up document linked there also definitely extended my views.
>
> Right now I have my related thoughts only as local brain dumps in some files,
> will see to turn them into sorted English text in the near future, e.g. as
> task on Phabricator to start the collaboration. But might be only in December
> from my side to poke this some more with proper depth.
>
> Cheers
> Friedrich
>
>