On 5 Jul, 2006, at 22:07, Mike Taylor wrote:
If the reminder/event information is dumped to a flat file then any
low-impact program could sit in the task-tray/status-bar of each OS
and run thru a check-for-file, check-for-reminder-hit, go-to-sleep
cycle every minute.
The actual notification process could be tailored for each OS:
Growl for OS X, pop-up dialog for Windows, etc
The program could even check to see if chandler is running and if
so open a simple connection to give more value-added services.
As for how to start the program, each OS provides an area that if a
program is listed it will be started when the user logs into the
system.
More specifically, "an area" == ?
- Mac OS X: An entry in ~/Library/Preferences/loginwindow.plist
- Windows: A "startup items" folder/registry entry?
- Linux: ?
--Grant
On Jul 5, 2006, at 9:08 PM, Grant Baillie wrote:
One commonly found Calendar feature that we'd like to implement is
the ability to have reminder dialogs for events be displayed even
when the Chandler GUI isn't visible (see https://
bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5407).
Presumably, this would be something users could turn on and off,
lest we be accused of propagating some kind of CPU-hogging
virus :). It's unlikely we'll have time to do this in the α4 time
frame, but I'd like to request comments and/or propose some ideas
for how we could get this done.
Also, since I'm somewhat of a Mac guy, and solving the issue will
probably require different behaviours on Windows & Linux, it would
be good to enlist the help of people who know the other platforms
well. For instance, there may be OS-specific services that I'm not
aware of that could be helpful here. The main technical stumbling
block that I see is one that probably has a platform-specific answer:
+++ How do we make sure that some kind of background process or
app runs whenever the user is logged in?
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