Progress report: Mozilla Calendar plugin

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to inform you that I'm currently in the process of writing 
a MultiSync plugin for Mozilla Calendar / Sunbird. I write this post 
because (a) you may be waiting for a Mozilla Calendar plugin (b) you may 
be thinking about writing one yourself (so this is a chance to 
coordinate your efforts) or (c) you may have suggestions about such a 
plugin you want to share with me.

The current status is as follows:

The plugin is already basically working - I use it to sync appointments 
from Mozilla Calendar (latest snapshot from the Mozilla website) to my 
Siemens S55 phone. Support for syncing appointments FROM the phone is 
90% there (but it won't work until I code the last 10% of course, and so 
it is disabled at the moment).

It only supports calendar entries, no TODO entries at the moment (I have 
no need for this).

With this plugin, one can use multiple calendars (.ics files) with 
MultiSync. This works, because the plugin "merges" these calendars 
internally and displays it as one single calendar to MultiSync. It 
remembers which appointment was originally in which calendar, so 
modifications/deletions on the other side get propagated to the correct 
calendar. It also features a "default calendar": If on the other sync 
side an entry is added, it is written into this calendar.

I'm using local files for sync at the moment, but plan on adding support 
for WebDAV, e.g. via the "cadaver" command line utility. This is not 
perfect, but it works, and is meant as a temporary relief until the 
folks at Mozilla either publish a Sync API or implement proper locking 
for WebDAV.

I don't have a GTK GUI at the moment, because I don't really know 
GTK/GNOME well enough so that it would be an easy task for me, and I 
don't have time to learn it at the moment. So if someone would be 
willing to create a simple GTK dialog for the plugin settings, that 
would be quite cool.

Once the plugin is reasonably stable I will publish it here of course.


Markus



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