Re: Evolution Plugins (Was Re: Rise of the Plugins)

[Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan novell com>]

On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 10:56 +0530, Sankar P wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 21:20 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > <quote who="Alexander Larsson">
> > 
> > > This is kinda a backward question. The reason you want to split it out is
> > > of course not because you want to use the mailer without the addressbook,
> > > it is because you want to use the address book without the mailer. 
> > 
> > ... and you can provide a deliciously optimised user experience for both use
> > cases. It's worth looking at the user experience of the OS X communications
> > tools, and possibly even the Windows Vista ones (although they're definitely
> > uglier) to see why this is such a good way to go. It would be *FANTASTIC* to
> > see Evolution become a suite of wonderful, focused applications instead of
> > the Outlook clone it is today (and, sure, designed to be).
> 
> The components of Evolution are loosely ties to the Evolution shell, so
> that you can use any component without other components loaded at all.
> 
> To answer Alexander, if you have at least one account configured, you
> can directly launch Evolution Addressbook without ever having anything
> to do with Mail component. If you launch "Evolution Addressbook" from
> your gnome main menu, it should not ask your IMAP password. If it does,
> it is a bug, please file that.

This is one of the assumptions which the split patches broke. The UAM
[1] would fix all these things.

-Srini

[1] - http://www.go-evolution.org/UAM (Unified Account Management)