Re: [Evolution-hackers] Evolution-data-server offline handling

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 16:58 -0500, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 21:27 +0000, Philip Withnall wrote: 
> > This sounds good. Do I have to make any fixes to the Google Contacts
> > address book backend, or will it all be handled centrally? (i.e. With
> > this GNetworkMonitor change, will there be any bugs left in the Google
> > backend’s handling of online/offline status?)
> 
> The EBackend base class already has an "online" boolean property.
> Backend modules just have to honor it.
> 
> For 3.4 we can just bind it to GNetworkMonitor:network-available if
> linking to GLib >= 2.31.
> 
> For 3.6 I'd like to have each EBackend manage its own "online" state by
> calling g_network_monitor_can_reach() in response to "network-changed"
> signals from GNetworkMonitor.  Then we get VPN awareness for free!
> 
> In either case it's all handled in the base class.

Here are the patches:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669487