Re: [Evolution-hackers] eplugin branch, startup-wizard

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 22:10 -0400, JP Rosevear wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 07:47 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 12:39 -0400, JP Rosevear wrote: 
> > > On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 14:18 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > hi orl,
> > > > 
> > > > I just turned off the startup wizard in the plugin branch/to be 2.1
> > > > branch.  It wont work with the new mail config editor, and i'm hoping
> > > > it will be going away anyway.
> > > > 
> > > > Currently at startup evo just starts, and not until you need an
> > > > account (i.e. you hit new mail) does it popup the normal mail-config
> > > > druid.
> > > 
> > > The one other spot we rely on the mailer having at least one account
> > > that I know of is in the calendar for creating itip meetings (we list
> > > the accounts in an option menu for the user to pick the "organizer" of
> > > their meeting).
> > 
> > Well that code should need to check you have an account anyway.  Even
> > with the startup wizard there's nothing to stop the user deleting all
> > of their email accounts.
> > 
> > This uses a composer right?
>
> Yes.
>
> > I guess we could put a check in the composer factory.
>
> It also uses it before the composer.
Well I guess it will have to change to use it afterward.  Or better, not let it access the composer directly at all.

> The ideal solution might be to have a way to trigger account setup for
> whoever may need to.
Well i think the ideal solution wouldn't be using gconf as the way to access the data in the first place.

It doesn't provide a rich enough set of features to manage data consistency.

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Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> "born to die, live to work, it's all downhill from here" Novell's Evolution and Free Software Developer