Thread: [Under consideration] Profile and IM Status scheduler using Calendar
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nymajoak is offline nymajoak
2009-10-26 , 18:47
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#6
Originally Posted by TomJ View Post
The location aware stuff, perhaps. However, I think that Calendar and whatever the Alarms app is should have this profile/staus fields built in, if this is possible. It's a much cleaner way of dsoing things than needing settings in another app. Plus, I get the impression Shephard might be being expected to carry too much functionality...
I agree with your last sentence.

I do however like the idea of having one place to turn to for all "scheduling" purposes.
The answer to how to get the device to automatically do something is always the same and you have one place only in which to set up and manage all your schedules, not the calendar for time-triggered things, maybe maps for location-triggered things and a third place for a third trigger. Not to mention output support would have to be duplicated in all those places. Updates with respect to one output which should support several different triggers would have to be made to all those places. Organizing updates and maintenance to be done to all those places in a streamlined manner might be troublesome.

It also feels practical to have it all in one central framework with respect to carrying functionality. The application can grow over time, adding input or output options. Maybe even with a plugin-type system making it easy for other communtiy members to help adding functionality.
Last edited by nymajoak; 2009-10-26 at 18:55.