Re: [Evolution-hackers] online/offline in e-d-s

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo novell com>]

On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 12:00 -0500, Luis Villa wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 11:42 -0500, Michael R Head wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 21:29 -0700, Sivaiah Nallagatla wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I am planning to implement a eds-offline-listner which listens to a
> > > gconf key to get to know of online/offline changes (this gconf will a
> > > desktop wide one if one gets implemented or if we resort to using some
> > > gui element in evolution to set online/offline modes , it will be a
> > > gconf key installed by e-d-s). 
> > 
> > Very cool stuff. I've been hoping someone would do this for all the apps
> > (where all == evolution && gaim && galeon). 
> > 
> > I was personally expecting that it would be integrated with netapplet,
> > since it has the 'Disconnect' option right in it. I assume it sends some
> > Dbus message, but I don't really know... 
> 
> netapplet is really too high level for this; you (by which I mean
> Siva ;) probably want to connect to network manager for it instead.
> 
hmm, but netapplet does know when the network goes up and down, right?
If so, it can just set that desktop-wide GConf setting, and then we just
need to change apps to listen to that key.
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo novell com>