Re: [Evolution-hackers] composer in e-d-s

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 11:11 -0500, JP Rosevear wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 16:55 +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > While starting to move the calendar editors to e-d-s, I came to the
> > dependency on the composer (used for sending meeting invitations from
> > the dialog), which stopped me on the move.
> > 
> > So, as I see it, we have the following options:
> > 
> > * move the composer to e-d-s. This is the option that convinces me the
> > most, since it makes sense, if we really want to make all reusable
> > things in Evolution easily reusable, to have the composer, along with
> > the editors, categories API, etc, all in e-d-s.
> > 
> > * have the dialogs rely on the composer in evo. This will make people
> > with only e-d-s installed unable to send meeting invitations from the
> > dialogs. For this, we'll just need the IDL files in e-d-s
> > 
> > * don't move the dialogs. This is, at least for me, a no-option, since
> > lots of applications will need the dialogs (ifolder, clock-applet,
> > contact-lookup-applet, mrproject, etc)
> > 
> > So, what do you think? Is moving the composer too much work?
>
> I think there is another option, send the mail directly via camel.
> Right now for the editors we never actually show the composer dialog.
This is a pretty difficult option too.

We don't actually send any mail "directly via camel", ever.  It needs lots of other info, and goes into special queues and so on.

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