[Evolution-hackers] Using EBookView effectively

[Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com>]

Hi,

I am having some trouble getting desired results using EBookView.  What
I want to do is:

(a) Get a list of changes and only a list of changes at (my app's)
startup.
(b) Get any subsequent changes to contacts from e-d-s as they happen.

Doing (a) is simple.  I use e_book_get_changes() on my EBook and I get
the changes.

When I call e_book_get_book_view(), attach signals, and start it,
however, I get change notification of every single contact being added
to the EBookView.  I don't want to get any of these initial
notifications, only notification of actual changes after-the-fact.

Is there a way to do what I want without some gross racy timeout?

Joe