Re: [Deskbar] GMail account search

["Kevin Kubasik" <kevin kubasik net>]

Ok, my first look went well. But my major concern (as with almost all
gmail related products) without a publicly released API, and with
Gmail still technically in beta, google changes minor things pretty
regularly which can majorly mess up handlers like this. While I don't
think we should give up such a cool feature. It might be prudent to
look into some way to push updates of handlers to clients.

Bear with me, maybe this has been brought up before, but a simple ftp
repo with some index.yaml (YetAnotherMarkupLanguage) file or similar
could be used to allow clients to pick what handlers they want and
download them as needed (since handlers are so small its not much
overhead all said and done). We wouldn't even need to modify the
current UI much, this could be done mostly transparently, with a
simple popup when one or more handlers are out of date.

Just a thought, but its issues like this, if google were to change a
small bit of their gmail URI and we have to initiate another release
and hope that packagers get it into their distros in time before we
get a deluge of complaints that people spammed their entire contact
list with each search term or something stupid like that.

Ok, so that's a little absurd, but you get where I'm going.

-Kevin Kubasik

On 4/23/06, Raphael Slinckx <raphael slinckx net> wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I recently seen the Stuart Langridge's plugins for deskbar. I took his
> gmail search plugin (using libgmail) and prettified it a bit. I attach
> it to the mail.
>
> It uses gconf to store username and password.
>
> Please tell me what you think about it, if it should go in core release
> for 2.15 or not..
>
> If we manage to get web-plugins done, then it can be moved afterwards..
>
> Raf
>
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