Cread/Read/Update/Delete API for alarms

[Charles Kerr]

As described in bug #1361702 we currently require "magic" tags in our VTODO events in order to treat clock-app alarms differently from other todo events imported from other calendar sources. This special treatment has to exist in both indicator-datetime and ubuntu-calendar-app.

In the #ubuntu-app-devel discussion on Sept 24, zsombi, mihir, nik90 and I agreed that it would make more sense to decouple the alarms from EDS altogether.

Earlier this year there was an aborted attempt to get a public "clean C" API for this into platform-API. That could be revived.

However, since that time the datetime alarm service has become the de-facto location for alarms and provides a DBus API for setting alarm duration, vibrate mode, default alarm sounds, and the like. The general agreement in the #ubuntu-app-devel discussion was that this API could be extended with an alarm create/read/update/delete API.

This latter option should be picked up post-RTM so that we can remove the temporary workarounds implemented for bug #1361702.

[Zsombor Egri (zsombi)]

I agree with Charles, especially that QtOrganizer is just not made for such a functionality we are using it right now. A proper API which would interact with indicator-datetime would be cleaner and - why not - faster than the current EDS solution.