Re: [Evolution-hackers] problems integrating evolution with tomboy

[Alex Graveley <alex beatniksoftware com>]

Also,

I don't want to look at attachments.  I want to link to them.  

-Alex

On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 02:59 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 09:41 -0400, Alex Graveley wrote: 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > So I've encountered the following issues when trying to support
> > copy/paste and drag 'n drop linking of mails to Tomboy notes... 
> > 
> > Inside a Tomboy note I would like to show the subject, an icon
> > representing its replied-to status, and any flags or labels.  Clicking a
> > linked mail should open it using the running evolution instance.  
> > 
> > Currently I can only support showing the subject and opening, and those
> > are done only with gross hacks.  To support the rest I would have to
> > parse camel summaries directly.
> > 
> > These are the main problems I see:
> > 
> > * For email drops, there is no mapping between the x-uid-list uris and
> > the uris that the mail component can open on the command line.  So I
> > have to read and parse evo's gconf email account info, and manually map
> > the x-uid-list uris to accounts that I find, using mail backend-specific
> > uri matching.
> No, you shoudln't be using that type, it is an internal type.  You
> should only use the uri-list or message types.
> 
> > * There is no status blob passed in drops, so I must parse the mime
> > message directly to get the summary info (subject, sender, date, etc),
> > and support mbox format parsing when multiple messages are dropped.  And
> > this still doesn't allow me to get at information like whether the
> > message has been responded-to or flagged as important.
> See above.
> > * No way to reference attachments.  They are just copied to a temp file.
> > Not able to show an attachment in the mail message context I've seen it
> > (no x-uid-list for attachments).
> You have to parse the messages yourself if you want to look at the attachments.
> > * No way to be notified of changes to linked mails, such as deletion,
> > moving, replying, or flagging the existing email.
> No idea what you're doing, but it doesn't sound like its something you
> can do from an external application.
> 
> > Also, it seems that none of the other components besides the mailer
> > support command line URI schemes (via the handleURI component call), so
> > there is no easy way for me to pop up the evolution dialogs for editing
> > a task, a contact, or a calendar item.  Or to have these objects
> > displayed inside their respective components in a running evolution.
> > 
> > -Alex
> > 
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> 
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