Dates Screencast
Chris has been a busy man for the last few days, improving the performance of Dates. It's now a really usable program: previously startup took several minutes (I've four calendars, two of which are large webcals) but now it is just a second.
It's so cool I even made my first screencast. I used Byzanz so the dithering isn't part of the application, and the mode changes should be smooth animations but happened too fast for Byzanz to capture. But you can get a feel for the application, and I hope you agree it kicks arse.
NP: Motion, Cinematic Orchestra
Posted by Renato at Mon Mar 13 12:37:41 2006:
Wow! That looks very very cool!
I'd use a simple and streamlined tool like that on my gnome desktop too! (not only for the N770!)
Am I right in that being integrated with EDS the events generated by Dates will be visible inside Evolution AND the Clock/Calendar applet in gnome?
This great!
Posted by Ross at Mon Mar 13 12:42:21 2006:
I'd use a simple and streamlined tool like that on my gnome desktop too! (not only for the N770!)
Am I right in that being integrated with EDS the events generated by Dates will be visible inside Evolution AND the Clock/Calendar applet in gnome?
This great!
Indeed, Dates uses EDS, so it is displaying the same data as both Evolution and the Clock show.
It's very, very cool. :)
Posted by Ploum at Mon Mar 13 13:24:57 2006:
It's very, very cool. :)
This seems to be really great ! I want it for my 770 and my desktop. (and I will ask Santa Claus for a synchronization tool between both ;-) )
Could we expect packages soon for those plateforms ?
It's really, really cool...
Posted by Peter Robinson at Mon Mar 13 14:20:06 2006:
Could we expect packages soon for those plateforms ?
It's really, really cool...
Compiling it for a standard desktop distro is really easy. Once checked out of svn its a matter of ./autogen.sh, make and make install.. The nokia 770 is a harder nut to crack. You need to get Ross's eds-dbus checkout and compile it (which I haven't managed to in scratchbox yet (I think due to the old version of dbus) and then compile dates against it (there's also contacts too :-). I need to look at it further but I think most of the issues will be recified with the IT2006 release (when ever that is) and the Maemo 1.2 release that will probably come with it. Also Ross is there a mailing list for the dates/contacts/eds-dbus stuff?
Posted by Ross at Mon Mar 13 15:50:20 2006:
Note that Contacts and Dates don't require eds-dbus so if you have managed to build normal EDS on the 770 or any other handheld it will work too.
There is no mailing list yet for any of these packages, if you want to talk about eds-dbus mail me (ross@o-hand.com), for Contacts and Dates then mail Chris (chris@o-hand.com).
Posted by siddhesh at Fri Feb 9 09:36:29 2007:
There is no mailing list yet for any of these packages, if you want to talk about eds-dbus mail me (ross@o-hand.com), for Contacts and Dates then mail Chris (chris@o-hand.com).
