Re: [Evolution-hackers] the status bar and components as controls

[Dan Winship <danw ximian com>]

On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 03:58, Not Zed wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 10:19 -0500, Dan Winship wrote:
> > The way connector works in 1.5 is that it implements an
> > EvolutionComponent which then requests controls from the other
> > components to fill in its own view pane with. But there's currently no
> > way it can get a statusbar that goes along with the view.
> 
> Which controls are the controls it requests?  Not the ones from
> createControls?  Or does it request all of them but only use the view?

No, each component has a separate BonoboControl-returning interface.
(Mail's comes from mail-component.c:mail_control_new().)

> Can't you just request all the controls, and hide the status bars not
> associated with the currently displayed view widget?

As things are currently written, the view control returned by
createControls doesn't create a property bag with a "uri" setting, so
Connector has no way of forcing it to display a particular folder. I
guess that's easy enough to fix.

I think I'll:
      * get rid of the existing control/property bag interface
      * use createControls
      * explicitly note in Evolution-Component.idl that the
        createControls caller is allowed to destroy the sidebar if it
        doesn't want it
      * add a "setUri (in Control view, in string uri)" method to
        Evolution-Component.idl

-- Dan