From: csb@gdwb.oz.au (Craig Bishop)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: Why is the File Manager in OW 3.0 so buggy?
Date: 2 Sep 92 01:01:59 GMT

nghoff@albert.monsanto.com (Norman G. Hoffman) writes:

>What would you say must be added to the Calender (sic) Manager
>to make it useful (besides a spell checker)?

If you were reading this group earlier this year you would have
seen a petition which was organised concerning the Calendar
Manager. It is still bubbling along. It will be interesting to
see how many of the problems it identifies and the RFE's which
were subsequently attached to those problems are fixed in 
upcoming versions of the Calendar Manager.

Here is the petition and the RFE's. This represents the the
request by over 80 adminitrators running over 10,000 Sun 
Workstations.

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The following Sun users are petitioning Sun Microsystems to
include the following functionality into the OpenWindows Deskset
"Calendar Manager" tool. The majority of the items below are
associated with the "backend" of the "Calendar Manager" ie. the
"rpc.cmsd" process. Others are related to the methods which can
be used to store the calendar information. And others are requests
for information. However they all relate to the usefulness and
manageability of the "Calendar Manager" at installations of more
than a few Suns.

1. The "/var/spool/calendar" directory must be able to be mounted
   from a remote machine via NFS. Whether the "/var/spool/calendar"
   is mounted directly or via the automounter should not matter.

   BUG # 1075601

2. The "Calendar Manager" should also be able to operate in an
   environment where the "/var/spool/calendar" directory only
   exists on a server machine. The client machines which run the
   "cm" process do not have a "/var/spool/calendar" directory at
   all. The "cm" process on the client merely communicates with a
   rpc.cmsd on the server and the calendar changes are made
   there. In this environment there should be no requirement for
   a local rpc.cmsd process.

   The system administrator should have control over where users
   default calendars reside. This can also be a user option but
   must be able to be overridden by the administrator. Eg. if the
   administrator wishes to force calendars to a particular host
   the "Default Calendar" property should be "greyed" out.

   In an environment where all the "local" users calendars are
   stored on a server the "Calendar Manager" daemon should allow
   users to access other users calendars via their username
   without a hostname extension. The hosts.equiv file could be
   used to establish that "local" users are involved.

   In a server type configuration as described above in feature
   number 2, the "Calendar Manager" process must be made
   resilient to server crashes. It should automatically reconnect
   to the server and inform the user of any missed notifications.

   RFE # 1083378

3. The system administrator should have control over where users
   mail should be sent by default. Larger sites usually have a
   host which is used for mail service. The "Mail To" property
   would not be greyed out as the user should have the ability to
   redirect the mail if they wish.

   RFE # 1083381

4. The browse feature must also use the default calendar set by
   the user or the system administrator. At the moment it always
   uses "username@local_machine" regardless of what the default
   calendar is set to.

   RFE # 1083383

5. Sun need to publish specifications of the "Calendar Manager"
   protocol. Users want to create alternate front ends and be
   able to extract the calendar information using other tools. An
   example would be producing an interface to a hand held
   calendar device like those provided by "Sony" and "Casio".
   Another would be a interface for users of PC's in a mixed
   environment of PC's running PCNFS and Suns.

   RFE # 1083380

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Craig Bishop			Information Systems Division
Email: csb@gdwb.OZ.AU		Geelong & District Water Board
Phone: +61 52 262506		61-67 Ryrie St Geelong
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