Александър Шопов wrote:
> These are "appointment" and "meeting".
I am probably partially repeating myself from our private
conversation, but here is my understanding:
* An "appointment" is an event with undefined (at least in the UI)
participants, e.g. I can create a new appointment to discuss this
specific terminology problem with you, or I can create an
appointment that I must meet with the local GUG on Wednesday
evening. An appointment can be recurring, and can take a whole
day -- for example you can create an appointment that marks a
whole day as a holiday or something special.
* A "meeting" is an event with participants and an organizer, much
like your counter-argument that this smells too much corporate (it
really does).
The organizer can change every detail of a meeting (and Evo has a
mechanism to inform others semi-automatically); participants can
change only certain details. The "RSVP" thingy is relevant only
for meetings, but not for appointments. IOW, a meeting is a
special form of appointment where at least 2 persons meet and the
other can be notified (and confirm/decline) about the event.
There are "meetings" that are specific to the proprietary backends
(Exchange, GroupWise) -- this only adds to the confusion as they
probably have slightly different semantics.
Perhaps it would be a good idea to ask on the Evolution list, although
I have the impression that some Evo developers read gnome-i18n and are
likely to shed some light when they find the time.
_______________________________________________
gnome-i18n mailing list
[email protected]
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
