Re: [Evolution-hackers] send/receive

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 12:13 +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 21:37 -0500, JP Rosevear wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 22:45 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > > > > My first thought is that could make this dialog completely unwieldy, i
> > > > > personally already have 4 mail accounts plus an NNTP account, if I were
> > > > > to add my groupwise calendar along with 3-4 web calendars, its now holds
> > > > > about 10 items.
> > > > > 
> > > > I was talking on hooking it to the Send/Receive action, not specifically
> > > > to the dialog, although it would make sense to show progress in that
> > > > dialog for calendars also.
> > > 
> > > Not going to be terribly easy though, given the way it works, unless
> > > you want to start using camel progress primitives in the calendar :-)
> > 
> > Perhaps its time to not make Send/Receive a global shell routine?
> > Mailer can still use send/receive, addressbook may not need any and
> > calendar can do "refresh" or something.
> > 
> I think this what makes more sense. Although I liked the idea of having
> a single 'refresh' button for all components.

Umm, yeah.  Why all that crap to get the "get mail" button to appear in all components if we're only going to use it to get mail?

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Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> "Ride, Work, Sleep. Beer." Novell's Evolution and Free Software Developer