[Kroupware] Re: kroupware_branch: kdepim/korganizer

Michael Brade kroupware@mail.kde.org
Mon, 14 Oct 2002 00:43:58 +0200


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On Saturday 12 October 2002 19:28, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> Color and geometry don't belong to the storage of the note data. They
> are a property of the view not the document.
Yup.

> You could realise colors by assigning a category to the note and let the
> user associate colors with categories. That's the way KOrganizer does
> it.
Hmm. Quite limiting... but let's see.

> The geometry could be saved in an extra file managed by the client.
> KOrganizer has a DocPrefs class for this.
Ok.

> > >   - I don't like the fork of KNotes too much... why aren't you
> > > using the dcop interface and hack knotes itself? Is it impossible?
> >
> > KNotes stores notes by itself (in files somewhere under ~/.kde/). We
> > need to store the notes in a mail folder owned by KMail, so just
> > using KNotes didn't work.
>
> The right way would be to extend KNotes to be able to store its data at
> other places, preferably using a backend shared with KOrganizer and
> other apps using the same way of storing data.
Yes, that's exactly what I want. That's why I had a look at libkcal in the=
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first place. I think it would be sufficient to store the KNotes data in one=
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remove the ~/.kde/share/apps/knotes/* dir.

> > Can notes have alarms? I thought that was only for appointments and
> > todos.
>
> A note with an alarm could be saved as a todo.
Cool :-)

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