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ZogG 2011-12-16 12:01
[Announce] Calendar-feed
 
first of all i'm not the author, the author is Denis Kormalev and his email is (kormalev dot denis at gmail dot com) if you have any questions.

That app is used to show events on the event feed, it has no need to for any other apps and you do not need to start any daemons. It has nice options right in native device settings menu.
The app can be found at:

apps.formeego.org in testing section:
http://apps.formeego.com/staging/app.../calendarfeed/

n9apps:
http://n9-apps.com/calendar-feed

Ovi:
http://store.ovi.com/content/221735

the code is available at gitorious:
https://gitorious.org/calendar-feed

here are screenshots:

http://n9-apps.com/app-images/calend...q_portrait.png

http://n9-apps.com/app-images/calend...q_portrait.png

http://n9-apps.com/app-images/calend...u_portrait.png

noetus 2011-12-16 12:24
Re: [Announce] Calendar-feed
 
Another one? How is this different from the 2-3 other ones already out there?

dkormalev 2011-12-16 12:26
Re: [Announce] Calendar-feed
 
Thanks, ZogG. I'm a bit lazy to do this announce myself :)
For those who are interested in information about application updates - at first it appears in my twitter (@BlackTass).

dkormalev 2011-12-16 12:28
Re: [Announce] Calendar-feed
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by noetus (Post 1138216)
Another one? How is this different from the 2-3 other ones already out there?
Development was started in approx same time as others.

It is different in mechanism used. This app doesn't use daemons or other opened apps. It is a plugin to SyncFW.

noetus 2011-12-16 12:35
Re: [Announce] Calendar-feed
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by dkormalev (Post 1138220)
It is different in mechanism used. This app doesn't use daemons or other opened apps. It is a plugin to SyncFW.
Does that mean it's better? I would like to install one of these apps but there is a lot of choice and it would be good to have some guidance or opinions from people about the advantages and disadvantages of each.

dkormalev 2011-12-16 12:39
Re: [Announce] Calendar-feed
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by noetus (Post 1138223)
Does that mean it's better? I would like to install one of these apps but there is a lot of choice and it would be good to have some guidance or opinions from people about the advantages and disadvantages of each.
For me mine is better of course :)
It is better in case of less processes on device -> a bit more battery life.

Also difference is that my app shows events in one top item in feed, when Organiser Feed shows them in different. Not sure what is better (I like my variant, it looks more useful for me) but if you use other sources for Feed screen than definitely mine is better because it lefts more space for other items.

ajalkane 2011-12-16 13:00
For me this is the best because it shows the events compactly.

noetus 2011-12-16 14:49
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I see; this does indeed look better, as I had tried one of the other ones on my wife's N9 and it took up a lot of space. Thanks for this!

noetus 2011-12-16 20:32
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I seem to have found some bug: I installed it and everything seemed fine. Four events were shown in the feed, for 21 Dec. Then I installed Meebirthdays and added events for birthdays. Now it is showing 4 events, all birthdays, between 07 and 13 Feb 2012! [Edit: Actually it's 2011, so the Calendar Feed is showing past events as the next upcoming events.] And of course nothing has changed in the calendar except these new events have been added.

I tried changing the settings, both 'Fill with Future Events' off and on (which I am not really sure what it does anyways). No difference - it is showing these events way far in the future instead of the next 4 events.

dkormalev 2011-12-16 20:44
Re: [Announce] Calendar-feed
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by noetus (Post 1138477)
I seem to have found some bug: I installed it and everything seemed fine. Four events were shown in the feed, for 21 Dec. Then I installed Meebirthdays and added events for birthdays. Now it is showing 4 events, all birthdays, between 07 and 13 Feb 2012! And of course nothing has changed in the calendar except these new events have been added.

I tried changing the settings, both 'Fill with Future Events' off and on (which I am not really sure what it does anyways). No difference - it is showing these events way far in the future instead of the next 4 events.
It is known bug, but I should say that it is mostly the problem of MeeBirthdays than mine. Author of MeeBirthdays should be notified (another user found this bug an said he will email author) about it. Reason of this bug is that MeeBirthdays events are created with finishing date in Jan, 1970 (simple overflow). For some reason harmattan calendar backend provide them as current. Workaround for it of course will be added in next version of Calendar Feed. Thanks for report.

Btw, as working solution for now I can only suggest thing that other user with that bug did - recreate it by yourself. But don't simply edit them. For some not yet known reason (I've not yet looked at data that user sent to me) edited event appears as current day event in calendar every day (as I understood that user it appears in Calendar also, not only in calendar feed).

Sorry for this bug, but it is really non trivial thing and I will never even suggest that event with endDate<startDate can even exist.

dkormalev 2011-12-16 20:58
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I've looked into that user data and found that Calendar app (I mean built-in one, not Calendar Feed) messed up this manually edited event, so I really suggest you to remove them and enter again (manually). When user changed this event type to all day event Calendar set null dates for both start and end date. Really weird behavior, but at least I know what I should workaround in my code.

noetus 2011-12-16 21:06
Re: [Announce] Calendar-feed
 
I started to suspect the issue was with MeeBirthdays as soon as I started looking at this more closely. The events that MeeBirthdays creates are really very strange. Here is an example for a birthday that is supposed to be on 7 Feb every year. Now when I look in the Calendar for that day the next day it comes up, 7 Feb 2012, I see the person's name, let's say Mary Smith, with her age on that day in 2012, and the event is marked as All Day. So far so good.

If I now click on that event to see more details about it I already see something that is strange. The Starts date has changed to 21 Dec 2012 at 00:00, the Ends date is 1 Jan 4712 at 01:00. Both dates are now shown incorrectly, and the end date should even be possible.

I did try and edit it, against your advice, and I just see the event has become today's event in the Feed but is nowhere to be seen in my actual Calendar.

MeeBirthdays seems flawed anyways because it shows the person's age as the same every year. I'm going to have to delete that Calendar (luckily I was just setting things up and there is no other events in that one) and uninstall MeeBirthdays and not use it.

The problem is partly the fault of Nokia for not (a) providing an anniversary event type that is found in the N900, and (b) not integrating the Contact's birthdays in the Calendar already - probably (a) and (b) are connected.

dkormalev 2011-12-16 21:10
Re: [Announce] Calendar-feed
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by noetus (Post 1138488)
I started to suspect the issue was with MeeBirthdays as soon as I started looking at this more closely. The events that MeeBirthdays creates are really very strange. Here is an example for a birthday that is supposed to be on 7 Feb every year. Now when I look in the Calendar for that day the next day it comes up, 7 Feb 2012, I see the person's name, let's say Mary Smith, with her age on that day in 2012, and the event is marked as All Day. So far so good.

If I now click on that event to see more details about it I already see something that is strange. The Starts date has changed to 21 Dec 2012 at 00:00, the Ends date is 1 Jan 4712 at 01:00. Both dates are now shown incorrectly, and the end date should even be possible.

I did try and edit it, against your advice, and I just see the event has become today's event in the Feed but is nowhere to be seen in my actual Calendar.

MeeBirthdays seems flawed anyways because it shows the person's age as the same every year. I'm going to have to delete that Calendar (luckily I was just setting things up and there is no other events in that one) and uninstall MeeBirthdays and not use it.

The problem is partly the fault of Nokia for not (a) providing an anniversary event type that is found in the N900, and (b) not integrating the Contact's birthdays in the Calendar already - probably (a) and (b) are connected.
I can't say that you shouldn't use MeeBirthdays. Me and MeeBirthdays author will try to make more integration of these two apps in next versions. One of thing we want to do is correct age displaying each year (It will not be shown in Calendar, but will be visible in Calendar Feed).

noetus 2011-12-16 21:10
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I sync my Calendar with Google Calendar and luckily Google Calendar has the ability to create a special Calendar with just birthdays of your contacts and I could either sync to that Calendar with CalDav (a nicer solution anyway) and/or use an RSS feed and subscribe to that on my N9.

noetus 2011-12-16 21:12
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OK, well I'll use the Google solution for now and when next versions come out of Calendar Feed and MeeBirthdays I will try again with that. In the meantime, is there any need for me to contact the author of MeeBirthdays or will you take care of it?

dkormalev 2011-12-16 21:14
Re: [Announce] Calendar-feed
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by noetus (Post 1138492)
OK, well I'll use the Google solution for now and when next versions come out of Calendar Feed and MeeBirthdays I will try again with that. In the meantime, is there any need for me to contact the author of MeeBirthdays or will you take care of it?
As you wish. As app author I can say that user feedback is always valuable and nice. Even if it contains bug descriptions :)
But I of course will discuss this bug with MeeBirthdays author

noetus 2011-12-17 01:20
Re: [Announce] Calendar-feed
 
Feature request: could you add in the ability to select which calendars will be used? I have minor calendars such as one showing holidays and I'd prefer not to clutter the limited notification space with notifications about those.

dkormalev 2011-12-17 07:47
Re: [Announce] Calendar-feed
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by noetus (Post 1138565)
Feature request: could you add in the ability to select which calendars will be used? I have minor calendars such as one showing holidays and I'd prefer not to clutter the limited notification space with notifications about those.
Sure. It is already in a feature heap, but I'm not sure will it be in next version or sometimes later.

BluesLee 2011-12-17 10:50
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@dkormalev: 10 posts without any thanks so far and this for the developer of one of the most downloaded and useful apps for our beloved N9, i could not stand this:)

Thank you for this great application Denis. With the latest update i can refresh calendar feed and it works seemless.

Requests:
1) Unfortunately, todos without a due date are not shown. Maybe you can implement this or you could add an option to show overdue todos. This would be great for those who do not bind their todos to dates.

2) You may add 0 minutes for the refresh intervall for no automatic refreshments, so that the user can handle this manually by clicking the refresh icon. Some of us have less friends and therefore less appointments;)

Blues

noetus 2011-12-17 11:08
Re: [Announce] Calendar-feed
 
Oh, I thanked ZogG for the original post but forgot to do the same for dkormalev when he came on. Now done.

I have another observation. When I select five lines to be used for the notifications, the last one is always blank, and there is a little gap there, which looks sorta ugly. Bug? Known one?

dkormalev 2011-12-17 14:31
Re: [Announce] Calendar-feed
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by BluesLee (Post 1138677)
@dkormalev: 10 posts without any thanks so far and this for the developer of one of the most downloaded and useful apps for our beloved N9, i could not stand this:)

Thank you for this great application Denis. With the latest update i can refresh calendar feed and it works seemless.

Requests:
1) Unfortunately, todos without a due date are not shown. Maybe you can implement this or you could add an option to show overdue todos. This would be great for those who do not bind their todos to dates.

2) You may add 0 minutes for the refresh intervall for no automatic refreshments, so that the user can handle this manually by clicking the refresh icon. Some of us have less friends and therefore less appointments;)

Blues
Don't think it is one of the most downloaded, but surely not one of the least downloaded :)

About requests.
1.Yep, I'm thinking about more work on todos. Maybe I'll also add a feature to show all todos in another feed item, don't know yet.
2. Not sure disabling refresh is needed. I tested battery usage (with Battery Usage app) and found that it is similar with and without Calendar Feed, so battery life is not the reason. Or you have other reasons for it? If yes, please elaborate. I really don't see use case.

Quote:
Originally Posted by noetus (Post 1138683)
Oh, I thanked ZogG for the original post but forgot to do the same for dkormalev when he came on. Now done.

I have another observation. When I select five lines to be used for the notifications, the last one is always blank, and there is a little gap there, which looks sorta ugly. Bug? Known one?
Can you send me a screenshot via email (you can find it at ZogG's post)?

F2thaK 2011-12-18 08:17
Re: [Announce] Calendar-feed
 
I have a request: with the date option, can you add day to it?? thanks

dkormalev 2011-12-18 09:03
Re: [Announce] Calendar-feed
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by F2thaK (Post 1138975)
I have a request: with the date option, can you add day to it?? thanks
What do you mean by day? Month day is avail in all preset date formats and is avail in custom format via dd and d. Day of week is avail via ddd in custom format.

F2thaK 2011-12-18 10:09
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^^^^^ thats what I was after, thanks

dkormalev 2011-12-18 10:16
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Quote:
Originally Posted by F2thaK (Post 1139000)
^^^^^ thats what I was after, thanks
BTW, format is taken from QDate (it simply passes date format string to QDate::toString() method). Also I explicitly described them in wiki: https://gitorious.org/calendar-feed/pages/Home

eres 2011-12-20 14:09
Re: [Announce] Calendar-feed
 
who the hell made a Polish translation for you?
it has some mistakes.

dkormalev 2011-12-20 14:37
Re: [Announce] Calendar-feed
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by eres (Post 1139965)
who the hell made a Polish translation for you?
it has some mistakes.
One (with "kanela" instead of "kanale") already found. Can you post here or email me others?

Demati 2011-12-20 16:21
Re: [Announce] Calendar-feed
 
Quick question: Is there a way to make TODOs appear on the feed? I tried messing around with the settings but can't seem to get that working.

dkormalev 2011-12-20 16:26
Re: [Announce] Calendar-feed
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Demati (Post 1140039)
Quick question: Is there a way to make TODOs appear on the feed? I tried messing around with the settings but can't seem to get that working.
Todos with dates are supported in current version.

Todos without date or with date earlier than current day (so called overdue todos) are supported in next version (now in beta testing). I hope it will arrive in OVI Store before the end of the year (28-30 Dec)

Demati 2011-12-20 16:59
Re: [Announce] Calendar-feed
 
Thanks for the quick response! I look forward to the next version!

eres 2011-12-20 19:03
Re: [Announce] Calendar-feed
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by dkormalev (Post 1139978)
One (with "kanela" instead of "kanale") already found. Can you post here or email me others?
"Pokaż" instead of "Pokarz" in 'show calendar colour'

dkormalev 2011-12-20 19:06
Quote:
Originally Posted by eres (Post 1140124)
Quote:
Originally Posted by dkormalev
One (with "kanela" instead of "kanale") already found. Can you post here or email me others?
"Pokaż" instead of "Pokarz" in 'show calendar colour'
Thanks, will fix

dkormalev 2011-12-29 05:10
New version is still not published, so you need to wait. Or you can build it yourself from gitorious sources.

dkormalev 2011-12-29 11:50
Ok, now it is published:-) Try it. Any feedback is appreciated.

Demati 2011-12-29 14:48
Re: [Announce] Calendar-feed
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by dkormalev (Post 1143093)
Ok, now it is published:-) Try it. Any feedback is appreciated.
I just tried to install via the Ovi Store and the version listed is older than the one I have installed. I have 0.9.3 and the store lists 0.6.1. Should I uninstall what I have first or will the version number in the store get updated?

superjunior 2011-12-29 14:59
Re: [Announce] Calendar-feed
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Demati (Post 1143134)
I just tried to install via the Ovi Store and the version listed is older than the one I have installed. I have 0.9.3 and the store lists 0.6.1. Should I uninstall what I have first or will the version number in the store get updated?

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=80141

;)

dkormalev 2011-12-30 08:13
Re: [Announce] Calendar-feed
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ynnad179 (Post 1143355)
All right, thanks! It works fine except that it also generates a .desktop file that is shown as a blank green icon.
It is known platform bug, but Nokia engineers still didn't answer me about workaround.

Arthuro_Adam 2012-02-13 07:05
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dkormalev (Post 1143371)
It is known platform bug, but Nokia engineers still didn't answer me about workaround.
I installed this application, and it's works great, but after one reboot, there is a new icon, which can't moveable, deleteable.

I attach a screenshot about it. Is it normal?

jpw 2012-02-25 23:20
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Thank you so much for a great app!

I have one small request, would it be possible to specify either 12 or 24 hr time formats?

It might be useful to incorporate it into the date format preference, so users could customize the time format as well.

Doing a quick search, it looks like there is the QDateTime object that could be used.

nbedford 2012-03-06 10:26
Re: [Announce] Calendar-feed
 
This morning my calendar feed stopped appearing at top of events fee :( I have upgraded to PR1.2 anyone else have this problem?


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