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Emailing appointments from Korganizer ?
by MandrakeUser on Thursday 26/Jun/2003, @09:12

Is it going to be possible to schedule, say, a meeting with other people, and have korganizer automatically email a reminder to everyone involved a couple hours before the meeting ?

Or add a doctor appointment and have an email sent to mysef an hour in advance ?

Last time I checked (a year or more ago) this was still not working, it would be great. It is the only thing I miss from my former solaris workstation :-)

Thanks in advance !

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Re: Emailing appointments from Korganizer ?
by Eric Laffoon on Thursday 26/Jun/2003, @10:37

It may require a little more effort but these things can be done with DCOP and both Kmail and Korganizer have triggering capabilites. You can use kdcop to explore the DCOP interfaces. Just have a script set up and and have the app run a program. It's less than emminently user friendly but it is something that can be done (as oppsed to can't be done) and with the right scripts can become very reusable.

For even more fun with integration you can try Kommander which allows you to construct strings simply by associating text with widgets in it's dialogs. Kommander also speaks DCOP, runs bash scripting natively and can call scripts in any language. You can find snapshots of the editor and some created dialogs at http://quanta.sourceforge.net/main2.php?snapfile=snap02 and docs at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4113. We will be adding more functionality to Kommander soon including script containers and a script repository to make this easier for users.

Kommander is the easiest visual dialog creation tool ever because it can create useful dialogs without a single line of code and these dialogs can expose and exchange information and manage nearly every aspect of a KDE application as long as they good DCOP support. This makes Kommander the ultimate user desktop "application glue". Kommander is part of the Quanta package developed from QT Designer to make Quanta and other KDE apps user extensible. Enjoy!

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Re: Emailing appointments from Korganizer ?
by MandrakeUser on Thursday 26/Jun/2003, @12:09

Thanks a lot for the tip Eric. I will give Kommander a shot whenever I get some time to do it. I still have the feeling that this funcitonality is going to be implemented (I either submitted or read a wishlist bug report some time ago on this topic). I thought it would be one of the features of the PIM changes in 3.2, I'll probably ask around or submit a wishlist again, unless you tell me you are sure it is NOT being implemented.

But in any case it is great to know about Kommander. Cheers !

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Re: Emailing appointments from Korganizer ?
by Eric Laffoon on Thursday 26/Jun/2003, @12:44

> Thanks a lot for the tip Eric.

You're welcome.

> I will give Kommander a shot whenever I get some time to do it.

Remember that it will likely seem utterly strange and incomprehensible at first looking at widget text association. So look at the docs and examples. Somewhere in there it generally hits you in a flash because it's so simple. Genius always is simple and we were inspired by Terek Zsolt's Kaptain software. Kommander benefits from visual design though among other things. Once you see what it can do you will realize it can integrate into any KDE application and solve many feature request issue as well as help to personalize and customize your desktop.

> I'll probably ask around or submit a wishlist again, unless you tell me you are sure it is NOT being implemented.

Look through KDE's Bugzilla. I am too busy with Quanta and Kommander to know all that is happening on kdepim. ;-)

Cheers

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Re: Emailing appointments from Korganizer ?
by andrianarivony on Thursday 26/Jun/2003, @14:42

> Thanks a lot for the tip Eric.
Again. korganizer automatically email a reminder to everyone involved is a functionality I would like to have.

> we were inspired by Terek Zsolt's Kaptain software
I love Kaptain. It's this sort of very clever little big tools.

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Re: Emailing appointments from Korganizer ?
by Eric Laffoon on Thursday 26/Jun/2003, @17:28

> I love Kaptain. It's this sort of very clever little big tools.

Obviously I do too and currently it has a few features Kommander doesn't, but when looking at doing some enhancements to Kapatin we decided to build Kommander instead. The similarities are many including text associations. The differences are instead of writing it in a grammer you draw it in a stripped and modified QT Designer. Kommander also can contain scripting and makes inclusion of new KDE widgets very easy for developers. We plan to have data aware widgets soon. It also is DCOP enabled. Both can live update (as of version 0.7 of Kaptain) and Kaptain has built in support for sockets. Both are very good tools. I think Kommander is a little more focused on end user ease of use though.

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Re: Emailing appointments from Korganizer ?
by guenther.palfinger on Friday 27/Jun/2003, @02:27

An easy way to do someting like this is to run a skript like the following:

#!/bin/bash
echo "any body text" | mail -s "subject text" email@address.com,email2@...

I also tried to type in this command directly, but commands with arguments seem not to be accepted.

Regards
Guenther

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Re: Emailing appointments from Korganizer ?
by MandrakeUser on Friday 27/Jun/2003, @11:14

Thank you Gunther !

Yes, it is possible to script these kind of things, but then of course, the whole idea of KDE is to provide a graphical, user-friendly environment :-)

I'll check bugs.kde.org - Thanks again !

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