Fwd: Re: [kronolith] view a shared calendar with Mozilla's Calendar project

[Dennis Ortsen]

Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> Zitat von Dennis Ortsen <mosaic at pinetree.nl>:
>
> >> > Just for my understanding, with the RPC server you mean an XML RPC
> server
> >> > that
> >> > can exchange information between Horde apps, Or is it intended only as
> an
> >> > interface between Horde and other XML capable systems/apps?
> >>
> >> It doesn't have to be XML and it already is beyond XML RPC.
> >
> > Well, I know what XML is, and see the potential, but what can I do
> > with the RPC
> > server? I mean, how do I get this all to work together? Is the RPC server
> > another module I need to install or is it already in the main part of
> Horde?
>
> It's built into Horde and currently there are XMLRPC and SOAP
> implementations of the RPC server and client. SyncML drivers are currently
> being developed.
> RPC does what it says: remote procedure calls. Our RPC server is implemented
> in a way that every method exposed through the modules' APIs is available
> in the RPC server.
>
> Jan.
>

OK, now I know what it is, but what is needed to get the Mozilla Calendar to
*talk* with Kronolith? AFAIK, Mozilla Calendar only supports iCal files, thru
WebDAV or FTP. how do I get the iCal files *automagically* imported in
Kronolith, and how can I *automagically* export specific (shared) calendars to
an iCal file? If it means some kind of job within cron that executes every 15
minutes or so, that's fine offcourse.

It's just a shame that there is no other way of getting any kind of calendar
program (Mozilla Calendar, Apple iCal, Ximian Evolution, MS Outlook) to talk
with any web-enabled calendar solution, like kronolith. Without a doubt,
Kronolith is by far the best web-based calendar solution. There are so many
clones, or own creations out there that do something similar, but I haven't
been able to find something that fits it all in together. There might be
commercial products that can do the trick, but isn't it a bit weird that you
need commercial software to connect 2 open source products to eachother?

Does anyone have an idea?

Thanks!

Wkr,

Dennis Ortsen