Replying to this thread on the design list.
Mikeal, can we subscribe to a CALDAV url today in Chandler Desktop
without filling out a sharing account? (I thought we could.)
Morgen, could we have a 'CalDAV' option in the Sharing account
pulldown? It wouldn't really be an account pulldown anymore...We
could rename Sharing account to be Share via: or Share with: (This
sounds like post-preview work.)
I think I'm less worried about the terminology. Chandler has a lot
more functionality than a Calendar client so I don't think our menu
structure can be (expected to be) the same. I'm betting that for most
people, 'Share' will be a more discoverable place to find subscribing
and publishing than Collection or Calendar even.
Mimi
On Jun 19, 2007, at 7:09 PM, Katie Capps Parlante wrote:
Mimi, do you have thoughts about Mikeal's proposal?
If we come to an agreement on a change, can we create a task and
SWAG it?
The current plan of record is to focus on interop in 0.7.1,
scheduling CalDAV related changes for that time frame would be
appropriate.
Cheers,
Katie
Morgen Sagen wrote:
On May 7, 2007, at 3:40 PM, Mikeal Rogers wrote:
Our experience right now when subscribing and publishing from
other CalDAV servers is pretty poor.
- We only support "sharing" and a "sharing" account. This is not
only alien to most CalDAV users it doesn't follow normal
subscribe/publish workflows from other clients.
- For every server that requires auth we need to add an "account"
in the account preferences.
- All of our current account options refer to "sharing", this in
contrast with language used in all other calendar clients. In
addition these options don't just publish the events in a
calendar they put the old chandler xml file up there and try to
publish more than just calendar data.
In most clients you simply select "subscribe" or "publish" on
your calendar collection and are prompted to enter a URL. The
client attempts to publish and if the server requires auth it
prompts you for auth.
Obviously this is in contrast to our current sharing workflows
and we're getting close to release. In the interest of keeping
this simple and nice for everyone I'd like to suggest a new
"Publish to CalDAV" and "Subscribe to CalDAV" option in either
the Collection menu or the Share menu that would follow the
simpler usage described above that is being implemented across
every other calendaring client. It would be great to have this in
a released Chandler before the end of the summer as the abundance
of caldav servers and clients is about to increase dramatically,
obviously only if it's not too much work/effort to risk our
Preview schedule.
-Mikeal
I agree with pretty much everything you said, but I don't know how
much of this can be done for Preview.
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