Ubuntu
indicator-datetime package

Need a mechanism for specifying what happens when an ical menuitem is clicked

Bug #1426519 reported by Charles Kerr
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu Calendar App
Fix Committed
Undecided
Kunal Parmar
Ubuntu Calendar App 2015-04-02 "Week 14"
Ubuntu Clock App
Triaged
Medium
Unassigned
Ubuntu Clock App 3.x.backlog "uncategorized"
indicator-datetime (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
Charles Kerr
Vivid
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned
qtorganizer5-eds (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned
Vivid
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned
reminders-app (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

indicator-datetime needs a way to dispatch an arbitrary URL when a user clicks on an ical event menuitem.

In practice, datetime currently has clock-app hardwired for dispatching alarms (dispatch_url('appid://com.ubuntu.clock/clock/current-user-version')) and calendar-app for everything else (dispatch_url('appid://com.ubuntu.calendar/calendar/current-user-version')).

There are two use cases that can be supported by datetime handling the URL property <http://www.kanzaki.com/docs/ical/url.html>:

(1) Clicking on an alarm menuitem opens up clock-app to that specific alarm, rather than to clock-app's main page. Clock-app could specify the information it needs in the URL, then open the right page when passed that information later. indicator-datetime would act as a simple pass-through.

(2) non-calendar, non-alarm items such as from the reminders app as requested by mzanetti. The pattern would be the same as clock-app: Reminders would add whatever URL it wants, then datetime would act as a simple pass-through. This is preferable to adding more special cases to indicator-datetime.

See also related bug <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-datetime/+bug/1431384> which discusses abstracting out the icon shown in ical events' menuitems

See original description

Related branches

lp:~renatofilho/qtorganizer5-eds/fix-1426519
Charles Kerr (community): Approve
PS Jenkins bot: Needs Fixing (continuous-integration)
Diff: 331 lines (+124/-16)
8 files modified
CMakeLists.txt (+1/-0)
organizer/qorganizer-eds-engine.cpp (+43/-7)
organizer/qorganizer-eds-engine.h (+3/-1)
organizer/qorganizer-eds-requestdata.cpp (+16/-4)
organizer/qorganizer-eds-requestdata.h (+1/-1)
tests/unittest/CMakeLists.txt (+0/-1)
tests/unittest/event-test.cpp (+59/-1)
tests/unittest/run-eds-test.sh (+1/-1)
lp:~charlesk/indicator-datetime/lp-1426519-add-tag-for-menuitem-activation-url
Ted Gould (community): Approve
PS Jenkins bot (community): Approve (continuous-integration)
Diff: 246 lines (+175/-5)
5 files modified
src/engine-eds.cpp (+24/-5)
tests/CMakeLists.txt (+1/-0)
tests/test-eds-tasks-config-files/.config/evolution/sources/system-proxy.source (+21/-0)
tests/test-eds-tasks-config-files/.local/share/evolution/tasks/system/tasks.ics (+28/-0)
tests/test-eds-tasks.cpp (+101/-0)
Ted Gould (community): Approve
PS Jenkins bot (community): Approve (continuous-integration)
Diff: 246 lines (+175/-5)
5 files modified
src/engine-eds.cpp (+24/-5)
tests/CMakeLists.txt (+1/-0)
tests/test-eds-tasks-config-files/.config/evolution/sources/system-proxy.source (+21/-0)
tests/test-eds-tasks-config-files/.local/share/evolution/tasks/system/tasks.ics (+28/-0)
tests/test-eds-tasks.cpp (+101/-0)
lp:~pkunal-parmar/ubuntu-calendar-app/UrlInvocation
Ubuntu Phone Apps Jenkins Bot: Approve (continuous-integration)
Bartosz Kosiorek (community): Approve
Mihir Soni: Pending requested
Diff: 62 lines (+33/-8)
1 file modified
calendar.qml (+33/-8)
lp:ubuntu/wily/qtorganizer5-eds
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Charles Kerr (charlesk) wrote :

Adding stakeholders to also-affects for feedback/comments

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Nekhelesh Ramananthan (nik90) wrote :

In the description, you mentioned that "Clock-app could specify the information it needs in the URL, then open the right page when passed that information later. indicator-datetime would act as a simple pass-through." Isn't it the other way around? The use case that I see is that when the user presses on an alarm shown in i-dt, i-dt then passes the necessary information that clock app requires to identify the alarm chosen by the user to open it.

I would still need to discuss with zsombor as to what information is required by the alarms API to open a specific alarm.

Charles Kerr (charlesk)
summary: - i-dt should support ical's "url" property for launching related apps
+ Need a mechanism for specifying what happens when an ical menuitem is
+ clickced
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Charles Kerr (charlesk) wrote : Re: Need a mechanism for specifying what happens when an ical menuitem is clickced

nik90, what I mean is that the necessary information you're referring to would be encoded in the URL that is provided by clock-app (or by the alarm controls in ubuntu-ui-toollkit, depending on where that logic lives).

So I'd like to replace the current implentation ('url_dispatch("appid://com.ubuntu.calendar/calendar/current-user-version")') with something like 'url_dispatch(event.url)' where the url would be provided by clock/calendar/reminder and would read something like, say, 'appid://com.ubuntu.calendar/calendar/current-user-version?alarm=someAlarmId'

This would require clock-app (or the alarm controls) to add this code, but the advantage of this approach is it scales to future third-party apps as well as adding reminder to the current pool of clock & calendar.

description: updated
summary: Need a mechanism for specifying what happens when an ical menuitem is
- clickced
+ clicked
Changed in indicator-datetime (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in reminders-app (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in ubuntu-calendar-app (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey)
no longer affects: ubuntu-calendar-app (Ubuntu)
Changed in ubuntu-calendar-app:
milestone: none → 2015-04-02
assignee: nobody → Kunal Parmar (pkunal-parmar)
Kunal Parmar (pkunal-parmar)
Changed in ubuntu-calendar-app:
status: New → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package qtorganizer5-eds - 0.1.1+15.04.20150508.2-0ubuntu1

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qtorganizer5-eds (0.1.1+15.04.20150508.2-0ubuntu1) vivid; urgency=medium

  [ CI Train Bot ]
  * New rebuild forced.

  [ Renato Araujo Oliveira Filho ]
  * Added a new extra metadata property in collection (read-only
    property). (LP: #1347836)
  * Avoid filter or sort results if not necessary.
  * Implemented support for extended details. (LP: #1426519)
  * Optimize query by filtering collections related with the current
    query.
  * Removed missing debug.
  * Revert wrong commit.
  * Save a trigger for reminders with with secondsBeforeStart equals 0.
    (LP: #1440878)

 -- CI Train Bot <email address hidden> Fri, 08 May 2015 20:01:44 +0000

Changed in qtorganizer5-eds (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
Bartosz Kosiorek (gang65)
Changed in ubuntu-clock-app:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Ubuntu Phone Apps Jenkins Bot (ubuntu-phone-apps-jenkins-bot) wrote :

Fix committed into lp:ubuntu-calendar-app at revision 697, scheduled for release in ubuntu-calendar-app, milestone rtm14

Changed in ubuntu-calendar-app:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Bartosz Kosiorek (gang65)
Changed in ubuntu-clock-app:
milestone: none → 3.x.backlog
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in indicator-datetime (Ubuntu Vivid):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in qtorganizer5-eds (Ubuntu Vivid):
status: New → Confirmed
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