Hello world
I didn't expect that much answers from my previous blog entry...
What's so special with this clock applet - korganizer integration ? I don't use KOrganizer (my brain is not compatible with such applications : I'm far too messy) so perhaps I'm missing something here...
Thanks to Tobias Koenig for his suggestion about the KDCOPServiceStarter. I didn't know this, and it's quite great. Now the code is far less ugly. So the new patch can be downloaded here. That's the only change I made, sorry I had no time to look at the duration of events.
For the upstream inclusion :
1- I'm not sure there will be a new KDE 3.5 release... I'd prefer a KDE 4.0 sooner if possible.
2- This patch introduces a new dependency in kdebase. If somebody want to look at the weird autotools and make this optional, then perhaps the patch could be accepted, but I'm not sure...
BTW, I'll look at KDE4 tomorrow and forward-port the patch if needed.
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Monday, July 2, 2007
Quick and Dirty : clock applet patch for KOrganizer integration
Hi
A friend bugged me about the gnome clock applet that had evolution integration while the KDE clock applet doesn't have KOrganizer integration.
So I decided to hack something on it during the night...
The result can be seen here :
As you can see, days with an event have a blue circle for background... Ugly but enough with my graphic abilities. And when you click on a day in the calendar, korganizer opens itself on this day...
The patch is really simple and can be found here : http://www.pinaraf.info/clock_applet.patch
For the compilation, I tried to understand. Well, I hope I'm not too wrong in the explanations :
1- download kdebase-3.5.7 (may work with another kdebase... may not work... who knows...)
2- extract
3- go into the subfolder kicker/applets/clock and apply the patch (typ : patch -p1 < ~/clock_applet.patch for instance)
4- go back into the "root" of kdebase-3.5.7
5- launch ./configure
6- launch automake-1.9 (or if somebody still has hairs, he can look at this and explain how to do it the right way)
7- since you don't want to waste your CPU to compile the whole kdebase stuff compile with the following commands :
8- cd kicker/libkicker
9- make
10- cd ../applets/clock
11- make
12- make install as root.
Then you can relaunch kicker using the command dcop kicker Panel restart. Et voila...
You've got an ugly-looking integration between Korganizer and the clock applet, with a dependency on kdepim for a kdebase applet... Since kdepim is splitted with kdepimlibs, I hope it has already been done in KDE4... (I don't use korganizer so I didn't test this yet)
Any comment, feature request... can be written here. But don't expect every feature request to be accepted and worked on : I consider this as a waste of time...
A friend bugged me about the gnome clock applet that had evolution integration while the KDE clock applet doesn't have KOrganizer integration.
So I decided to hack something on it during the night...
The result can be seen here :
As you can see, days with an event have a blue circle for background... Ugly but enough with my graphic abilities. And when you click on a day in the calendar, korganizer opens itself on this day...
The patch is really simple and can be found here : http://www.pinaraf.info/clock_applet.patch
For the compilation, I tried to understand. Well, I hope I'm not too wrong in the explanations :
1- download kdebase-3.5.7 (may work with another kdebase... may not work... who knows...)
2- extract
3- go into the subfolder kicker/applets/clock and apply the patch (typ : patch -p1 < ~/clock_applet.patch for instance)
4- go back into the "root" of kdebase-3.5.7
5- launch ./configure
6- launch automake-1.9 (or if somebody still has hairs, he can look at this and explain how to do it the right way)
7- since you don't want to waste your CPU to compile the whole kdebase stuff compile with the following commands :
8- cd kicker/libkicker
9- make
10- cd ../applets/clock
11- make
12- make install as root.
Then you can relaunch kicker using the command dcop kicker Panel restart. Et voila...
You've got an ugly-looking integration between Korganizer and the clock applet, with a dependency on kdepim for a kdebase applet... Since kdepim is splitted with kdepimlibs, I hope it has already been done in KDE4... (I don't use korganizer so I didn't test this yet)
Any comment, feature request... can be written here. But don't expect every feature request to be accepted and worked on : I consider this as a waste of time...
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