We lack a standard for delivering calendaring tools things like meeting requests. For example an E-mail client telling a calendaring tool to store a meeting request, and a calendaring tool telling an E-mail software to transfer meeting updates via a specific E-mail account to the attendees of the meeting.
I know a few projects implement calendaring for mobile devices. Like Dates, gpe-calendar and also a few Qtopia ones too (if you want me to be politically correct by mentioning the project names, then send me some). It would be a little bit silly for me to start creating patches for those implementations just so I can feed them with meeting requests.
A better solution would be a little D-BUS standard for it. An optional tinymail component could then implement supporting that standard for, for example, iCalendar attachments.
I personally wouldn’t really care if an application like Evolution would implement this. It’s not my goal at least. I do care, however, about Qtopia, GPE and Maemo endorsing such a standard for calendaring software. Maybe even get freedesktop.org onboard? Well, my personal goal really is mobile devices. But hey, it probably should have been a desktop standard a long time ago, right?
So the question: are the decision makers on those fronts interested in something like this? And if they are, where do we go from here? I mean, this standard can be typed in a few minutes. Implemented in a day for most calendaring tools and in something like 30 minutes for tinymail.
Let’s get it done?