Re: DBus interface for meeting creation

2018-03-13 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 at 14:37:53 +, David Woodhouse wrote: > My concern was that I didn't want to just invoke Evolution — users > might be using something different. But of course doing it through > xdg-open resolves that. If you are using a platform/runtime library like GLib or Qt (presumably

Re: DBus interface for meeting creation

2018-03-13 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2018-03-13 at 13:38 +, Corentin Noël wrote: > I wonder why is a D-Bus interface even required here. The simplest > solution (and already working one) is to just pass an ical file to the > calendar app with xdg-open. Yeah... that might work. In fact Milan implemented that for Evolution

Re: DBus interface for meeting creation

2018-03-13 Thread Corentin Noël
Le mardi 13 mars 2018 à 13:30 +, Simon McVittie a écrit : > On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 at 13:11:45 +, David Woodhouse wrote: > > We need to spawn a "new meeting" editor in the client of the user's > > choice, pre-populated with meeting dial-in information, conference- > > specific attendees, etc.

Re: DBus interface for meeting creation

2018-03-13 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Tue, 2018-03-13 at 13:11 +, David Woodhouse wrote: > As part of a conference protocol plugin for Pidgin (like the one for > Lync), we have the ability to create meetings. > > We need to spawn a "new meeting" editor in the client of the user's > choice, pre-populated with meeting dial-in

Re: DBus interface for meeting creation

2018-03-13 Thread Vladimir Kudrya
I have a very limited knowledge in this field, but I would like to point out that in Thunderbird such task is performed by messages with attached ical files. So, why not to base meeting creation on opening ical (existing standard) data (as a file, for example)?

Re: DBus interface for meeting creation

2018-03-13 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 at 13:11:45 +, David Woodhouse wrote: > We need to spawn a "new meeting" editor in the client of the user's > choice, pre-populated with meeting dial-in information, conference- > specific attendees, etc. Rather than inventing a small subset of iCalendar encoded into D-Bus

DBus interface for meeting creation

2018-03-13 Thread David Woodhouse
As part of a conference protocol plugin for Pidgin (like the one for Lync), we have the ability to create meetings. We need to spawn a "new meeting" editor in the client of the user's choice, pre-populated with meeting dial-in information, conference- specific attendees, etc. I've implemented a