Re: [Evolution-hackers] Offline stuff

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 08:10, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have restored the offline stuff in the shell.  The interface
> (Evolution::Offline) is the same as it was before, although now there is
> no more syncFolder() method since it's up to the component to sync the
> folders.
>
> So, to recap, now the following things need to happen:
>
>       * Components need to provide an implementation for the CORBA
>         Evolution::Offline interface and add_interface() it to the
>         Component object.  In particular, the mailer already has the
>         code for this, I think it needs to be hooked up again though.
>
>       * Components must start up offline.  The shell will put them
>         online if needed once the initialization sequence is finished. 
>         (This hasn't changed, it was the same in 1.4, but the mail
>         component now starts online no matter what since the Offline
>         interface was missing and it wouldn't have worked otherwise...)
>
>       * There is no centralized "offline folders" configuration anymore,
>         so we need something in the mailer to handle that if we still
>         want it to be configurable.
I saw in mozilla this is done as a property on the folder properties dialogue, on each folder.  I wonder if we should do that?  Or still have a separate page?

We dont have any property thing done yet, although i started working on one.  It would make things simple and hide the clutter from the main config page.

> Also, we had talked about revamping the mailer's way of doing
> offline...  Now I don't know how far are we with that, but I think it
> should just do this:
>
>       * Sync folders in the background while Evolution is online.
Sort of done.  There's an option to sync immediately which does this.  You can still use the maile rwhile its happening but there isn't any priority scheduling or anything so it would probably bog down (i haven't tested it really heavily).

>       * When going offline, if there are unsynced messages, the mailer
>         should notify the user ("you have unsynced messages, go offline
>         anyways?") and stop the download if the user confirms.  This way
>         the user doesn't have to plan in advance to sync the messages
>         before putting the computer offline.
Will that have to be done in each component or in the shell?

> This hasn't been discussed in a while though, so I am not sure what the
> state of things is in the mailer with this...  Someone please englighten
> me.  :-)  Are we still going in that direction or do we want to keep it
> more similar to how it was for now?
>
> -- Ettore
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