DBus interface for meeting creation

[Bastien Nocera]

On Tue, 2018-03-13 at 13:11 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> As part of a conference protocol plugin for Pidgin (like the one for
> Lync), we have the ability to create meetings.
> 
> We need to spawn a "new meeting" editor in the client of the user's
> choice, pre-populated with meeting dial-in information, conference-
> specific attendees, etc.
> 
> I've implemented a plugin for Evolution which supports this:
> 
> dbus-send --print-reply --dest=im.pidgin.event_editor \
>        /im/pidgin/event_editor im.pidgin.event_editor.CreateEvent \
>        string:"Organizer <dwmw2 at infradead.org>" \
>        string:"Meeting summary" \
>        string:"Meeting location" \
>        string:"Meeting description" \
>        array:string:attendee1 at example.org,attendee2 at example.org
> 
> Right now I'm shipping that Evolution plugin as part of my own code
> base, but I think it makes most sense to standardise the DBus API and
> split it out. Then it can be implemented in other calendar
> applications, and used from other places (like the Lync plugin for
> Pidgin, at least).
> 
> Does it make sense for this to be a fd.o specification?

What about passing this as a URI? There might even be an existing, and
probably underused, RFC for it.