My work on Maya taking place in the backend branch is at an advanced stage. And so I have merged my work into trunk.
I would like to give existing and potential contributors an overview of the state of Maya... New features: * Maya tracks the events in EDS. If you add, update, or remove an event that is in the current range of the Maya calendar, it will be picked up by Maya. * Maya allows you to select and deselect the sources you wish to make use of. The events for the source will be loaded and unloaded automatically. * When you switch month or year, the events for the new date range are loaded. Only the events for the selected sources are loaded. * Maya has a pretty damn good set of vapi's now, including one for libical. However only functions actually used have been tested. Many functions will probably require tweaking. Future work: * Consistent formatting of the source code. Currently there are problems with inconsistent code style and tab/space conventions. I have developed a solution using uncrustify that I am currently testing. * Creating basic sources in EDS if they don't exist. I have not tested what happens if a user starts Maya without previously ever using Evolution. In this case, the sources might need to be created in the EDS backend. * Storing the user's selected sources in saved-state or preferences. Currently the list of sources that the user has selected are not stored once Maya is closed. * Backend support for more EDS features: free-busy, attachments, recurring events, and so on. How you can help: * Improving the source selector. Turn it from a popup dialog into a popover. Implement adding/removing sources. Design of add/edit source dialog. * Rendering actual events on the grid and "sidebar". Implement the methods tagged TODO in Maya.View.CalendarView: add_event, update_event, remove_event, remove_all_events. Also get the sidebar working to list the day's events. * Get the vapi's properly integrated into EDS. Currently we are using vala-gen-introspect and vapigen. However, the EDS team have moved to using gobject-introspection. So contributing back will require adapting the .metadata files to GIR. I plan to write up most of the above points into bug/wishlist reports and blueprints on Launchpad. Instead of responding to specific points on the mailing list, you might want to continue the discussion on the appropriate (forthcoming) Launchpad page! -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
