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

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 18:09 -0500, David Malcolm wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 21:29 -0700, Sivaiah Nallagatla wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am looking at supporting online/offline modes in e-d-s for evolution
> > 2.2 release. Currently we have offline support only in mailer and the
> > mechansim for switching between modes is by clicking on a widget. We
> > want to listen to a desktop wide offline setting if possible in this
> > release. That may be using  a gconf setting or dbus notification,
> > currently nothing exists as far as i know. There has been discussions
> > on d-d-l about gnome wide offline
> > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-July/msg00111.html, 
> > but not sure how far it is gone. The idea is to make  e-d-s  listen to
> > this setting and  put all the backends in offline mode  and inform all
> > backend  clients about the change in the state,  instead of evolution
> > setting the modes on the backend using ECal or EBook apis.
> > 
> > I am describing what i am planning to do below . Please give your
> > suggestions  comments , betters way to do it , or tell me if what i am
> > thinking   just not going to work :-)
> > 
> > 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). This listner will be instantiated in
>
> So is online/offline a per-user property? a per-machine property? Both?
>
> GConf is for per-user preferences.  If I've got an NFS-mounted home
> directory shared between several machines, each sharing the same GConf
> database, do the machines have to go online/offline simultaneously when
> the state changes?

Umm, i really really don't imagine a nfs-connected machine ever needs to go offline.  It would only ever make sense for a luser desktop with a modem or a laptop.

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