[Chandler-dev] Proposal/Call for volunteers/Brain dump: Showing reminders when Chandler isn't running

[Grant Baillie]

On 5 Jul, 2006, at 21:46, Phillip J. Eby wrote:

> At 06:08 PM 7/5/2006 -0700, Grant Baillie wrote:
>> One commonly found Calendar feature that we'd like to implement is  
>> the ability to have reminder dialogs for events be displayed even
>> when the Chandler GUI isn't visible (see https://  
>> bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5407).
>>
>> Presumably, this would be something users could turn on and off,  
>> lest we be accused of propagating some kind of CPU-hogging  
>> virus :). It's
>> unlikely we'll have time to do this in the α4 time frame, but I'd  
>> like to request comments and/or propose some ideas for how we could
>> get this done.
>>
>> Also, since I'm somewhat of a Mac guy, and solving the issue will  
>> probably require different behaviours on Windows & Linux, it would be
>> good to enlist the help of people who know the other platforms  
>> well. For instance, there may be OS-specific services that I'm not  
>> aware of
>> that could be helpful here. The main technical stumbling block  
>> that I see is one that probably has a platform-specific answer:
>>
>> +++ How do we make sure that some kind of background process or  
>> app runs whenever the user is logged in?
>
> Have you considered just using the OS's scheduling facilities to  
> run things when they're actually scheduled?  That way, the program  
> wouldn't need to run all the time.

On Unix/Mac, the only thing I could think of was cron, and that's not  
so easy to use programmatically. Did you have particular facilities  
in mind?

--Grant