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

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Dennis Ortsen <mosaic at pinetree.nl>:

> 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.

I have no idea. It completely depends on what the Mozilla calendar is
expecting. If it expects a WebDAV server, we'd have to write one, if it's
FTP we're out of luck, if you don't want do that (rather ugly) cron
solution.

> 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?

Well, it needs someone with the motivation and the skills to do that. I
agree it would be cool to tie Kronolith tighter with other calendar apps,
but that's not very high on my personal priority list.

Jan.

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