I've watched some discussions about PIM formats on the Agenda developers'
lists. The Agenda already exports its data in the vCalendar format. But
there's one major thing that people wanted (I think it's a feature of the
Newton): one unified database. All PIM data would be stored in a single
format. Each application could provide a custom view of that database. This
lets you do stuff like showing Tasks on their due dates in the Schedule
application. I haven't really looked into it much, but it's something worth
considering.
-Sean
PS- It'll be a while before I do many big projects. School started last week
(yeah, I know August 2 is way too early; it seems that Texans like to begin
school during the 100 degree whether, unlike Coloradoans who'll gladly wait
until it cools down). I'll just be suggesting ideas, and trying out various
programs too.
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Micah Dowty
> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 12:20 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Subject: Re: [Pgui-devel] Standard dialogs and more: Done!
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> It seems that one of the big issues to be decided is the file
> format. Both the Gnome and KDE PIM applications (and several
> others) save in the vCalendar format. It seems like if we used
> that, there wouldn't be much work at all involved with desktop
> synchronization.
>
> I found a copy of the vCalendar spec:
> http://www.imc.org/pdi/vcal-10.txt
>
> The format seems awfully ugly though. It might be best to use an
> XML-based format, or even a custom binary format on the handheld
> and provide import/export programs for other formats, like vCalendar.
>
> On Mon, 06 August 2001, "Tasnim Ahmed" wrote:
>
> >
> > let me know if you are working on PIM apps, I want to
> contribute but I want
> > to follow or set standard things everyone accepts. Major issues:
> >
> > 1 changing interfaces in pgui (if any)
> > 2 data storage abstraction (xml, dbf, libdb, etc.)
> > 3 data structure on disk (entity-relations)
> >
> > I am more interested in keeping UI as independent of logic as
> possible, same
> > with data on disk. I know its a hassle but micah won't have to
> think twice
> > before overhauling pgui neither we have to stick with a data
> storage which
> > lacks at some point in the future.
> >
> > flames are welcome :p
> >
> > -tasnim
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Sean Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: Micah Dowty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 5:35 PM
> > Subject: RE: [Pgui-devel] Standard dialogs and more: Done!
> >
> >
> > >
> > > > The new scrolling, though, is really nifty. Any widget, including
> > > > containers with other widgets, can be scrolled. Simply create a
> > > > scroll widget, and set it's PG_WP_BIND property to the widget to
> > > > be scrolled. Using this method along with box, label, and button
> > > > widgets the file picker creates a scrolling table.
> > >
> > > Thanks for doing this, it'll be very useful for PIM
> applications on the
> > > PDA's. The small screen makes it hard to fit a lot of detail, but
> > scrolling
> > > containers fix that problem.
> > >
> > > -Sean
> > >
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