[PyKDE] Controlling korganizer from python

[Dick Kniep]

Hi list,

Thanks for the answers. However I get a little confused now. To narrow my 
question down here comes some extra info.

1. The application we have written is a Python wxPython application
2. We use a PostgreSQL using psycopg and a heavily modified SQLDict.py
3. I want to be able to show the appointments made in korganiser in the 
application in a wxPython screen.
4. An appointment is connected to a specific item in our application, which 
means, that I have to be able to identify the appointment that is entered in 
korganiser, and store the appointment-ID in our database. 
5. If a user wants to enter an appointment, he/she chooses a menu item in a 
screen in our application, next korganiser should fire up, the appointment 
entered by the user, and appear in our application. which means that the ID 
of the appointment should be given back to our application.

to implement webcal and korganiser connects to that, that's fine, if I should 
use dcop that's fine too, however, I would prefer to use webcal, because then 
I have more freedom in the use of a client. However, my experience with both 
is minimal, so if you could give me some examples or products I should use, I 
would REALLY appreciate that.

Cheers,
Dick

Op dinsdag 11 oktober 2005 16:21, schreef Joachim Werner:
> Hi Dick,
>
> Am Montag 10 Oktober 2005 23:29 schrieb Dick Kniep:
> > This is my first post here, so I am a newbee on python kde programming. I
> > do know my way around python.
> > We have built a big system with Python, wxPython and postgresql. Now we
> > would like to use kontact as an email/agenda, but I need a two-way
> > syncing of the appointments made either in our application, or in
> > korganiser. I have heard about dcop, and would like to use it, but I have
> > looked in the lists, but could not find any example, or even
> > documentation. It should be there, but probably I am not looking in the
> > right places. So if anyone could give me a push in the right direction I
> > would be very happy.
>
> I think in your case it might make more sense to just use one of the
> existing calendar resources for Kontact.
>
> E.g. you could have your application write an iCal calendar source to a
> local file that Kontact can read and write.
>
> One can write any kind of resource plugin for Kontact, e.g. one that gets
> calendar data via XML-RPC from a remote server, or one that uses an IMAP
> mail folder to store them. Quite a few do already exist, and I guess one or
> the other could be used out of the box by your app. You'd just have to
> implement the "server-side" protocol (be it just a file or some XML-RPC
> protocol) in your app.
>
> I don't think DCOP is needed at all for this.
>
> Cheers
>
> Joachim