QML Calendar stuff

[Kevin Krammer]

On Wednesday, 2014-01-15, 16:19:43, Mitch Curtis wrote:
> On 01/15/2014 02:27 PM, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 2014-01-15, 00:14:37, Martin Klapetek wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 12:09 AM, Mark Gaiser <markg85 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Just events? No todo, journal and holiday?
> >>> Or is "everything" a "event"?
> >> 
> >> Yes, everything is an event which has a type property, which can be todo,
> >> journal or holiday (or whatever).
> > 
> > I am not sure if this is wise. On the calendaring level there will be
> > events, todos, etc.
> > Using "Event" in QML for the base type (ical calls them "calendar
> > components", KDE's calendaring library calls them "incidences") might
> > lead to confusions when applications handle things from both C++ and QML.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Kevin
> 
> Also, Qt Quick Controls can't have C++ classes exposed. I would prefer
> that we first make it possible to integrate your own events into the
> Calendar somehow.

Makes sense. Just had to chime in on the idea that TODOs, etc were also 
events, which they are not.

> During the sprint in Barcelona, I was told that events for the calendar
> in Plasma are stored in an SQL database. How about this:

We get them from a service (communicating through QLocalSocket).

> Calendar doesn't expose any model; any extra data that you want to
> associate with a date is managed by you. In the case of Plasma:
> 
> Calendar {
>      SqlCalendarModel { id: eventsSqlModel }
> 
>      style: CalendarStyle {
>          dateDelegate: Rectangle {
>              // ...
> 
>              Text {
>                  text: eventsSqlModel.eventAt(index).eventName
>              }
>          }
>      }
> }

Sounds like a good approach to me.

Cheers,
Kevin

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