On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Bastien Nocera <had...@hadess.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 23:43 +0200, Seif Lotfy wrote: > > > > > Clocks: The clocks app is designed by the GNOME designers. > > It is still more > > > or less a prototype I am working on alongside Emily Gonyer. > > We wanted to > > > make use of Zeitgeist in storing "Alarms" as a type of > > "scheduled event", it > > > sounds like shoehorning but it is not. I am just hesitant > > because I myself > > > as a GNOME member do not want to use a technology or force > > integrate it > > > without GNOME agreeing of the usage of Zeitgeist. > > > > > > It might help for you to elaborate why Zeitgeist is needed > > there. > > Clocks is intended to be a really simple application. > > > > > > > > We need to be able to store Alarms. And those alarms should still work > > while the clocks application is closed. For that we need a central > > storage for the scheduled event which is the alarm, to notify all > > subscribers including Shell that an alarm went off. Same would go for > > timers. What do you think? > > I think that somebody with a hammer sees every problem as a nail. You > don't need to store alarms in Zeitgeist, you need to store the fact that > the alarm went off in Zeitgeist. > > Both are stored into Zeitgeist. The fact that there was a scheduled event (alarm) is there until the alarm time is reached. The entry is then changed from scheduled activity to a notification. This is technical really I think we should take this into irc. Seif
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