[Korganizer-devel] [Bug 92471] holiday plugin: make selecting multiple holiday sets possible

Erik Anderson erikanderson3 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 8 19:29:58 CET 2008


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------- Additional Comments From erikanderson3 gmail com  2008-01-08 19:29 -------
CORRECTION:
Not sure what changed 'cause it wasn't anything I explicitly did (other than to load the files in Sunbird, not sure what that would change for KOrganizer?), but the Mozilla .ics files are now loading correctly in KOrganizer, as local files, local directories, or remote files (directly from the Mozilla URLs).  Yay!

SUGGESTION:
Just get rid of that danged "Settings -> Configure KOrganizer -> Time & Date -> Use holiday region" option!  It is precious close to useless, leads to endless confusion and disappointment if anyone wants multiple holiday regions at once, and is much more elegantly and simply replaced by using a set of (possibly read-only) holiday .ics files.  Users could then be given a checkbox list of holiday sets to choose from, allowing multiple choices, rather than the one-only limited dropbox setup in the current GUI configuration.  (The set of holiday .ics files should probably be included as an installation option, since some users are still on dial-up or metered internet usage, such as in Australia, and remote calendar files might not work well in such situations.)

Incidentally, this also nicely does away with the need for a specialized KOrganizer holiday plug-in file format, and further leverages an already established and widely used standard (iCal).  And it should be much easier to implement than reworking the whole holiday plug-in infrastructure.  :)


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