Re: [Evolution-hackers] Question about Groupwise and Memos (see bug 389668)

[chenthill <pchenthill novell com>]

Hi nathan,		
        I added the summary and start date fields looking at the
supported fields for the VJOURNAL component. I have not observed the
initial discussions which had happened in the e-hackers list. I feel its
better to have a start field  so that the notes can be sorted well and
would be really useful to know when a note was created. The summary
field can be made optional depending on the backend's needs. I really
did not want to write another backend or a component for just supporting
the summary field in addition to what the memos component intially
supported. The UI changes can be probably taken up for evolution-2.12.

thanks, Chenthill.
On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 09:39 -0800, Nathan Owens wrote:
> Back when the Groupwise functionality was implement for the Memos component, the "summary" and
> "start date" fields were added to the Memos GUI. I was wondering why this is done.
> 
> IMO, Memos shouldn't have a start date, or a summary. In fact, when I originally implemented the
> component, the Summary field was just a cut-off portion of the Description. It was done
> on-the-fly, and only because I wanted a portion of the Description to show up in the Memos
> component table view. Showing the Description field in the Memos component table didn't look very
> good.

> Adding the summary field has now caused this bug:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389668.
> 
> As for the Start Date - the memos component isn't meant to be a Journal. It only uses the VJOURNAL
> format because I didn't want to write a new backend (and at the time, the consensus on the
> evolution-hackers list was that VJOURNAL would be appropriate). If we want a true journal, then we
> need a new component. Memos are just little notes (think of the Notes feature in Outlook, or the
> Memos feature in PalmOS - the PalmOS feature is what made me create the Memos component in the
> first place).
> Here's my proposal that I'd like to get feedback on:
> - Remove the Summary and Start Date fields from the GUI
> - Start Date is never set (could always be set to 0, but I don't believe I needed to do that when
> Memos was first implemented)
> - The summary field is automatically filled in (on-the-fly, or whenever the Description gets
> updated) based on the Description.

> I don't know much about GW, but I believe the core code should not support the Date and Summary
> fields as they are currently supported. If we need something different for GW, then it should be
> implemented differently.
> 
> Any thoughts? Anyone have insight into the Groupwise changes and why they were made?


> 
> Thanks,
> Nathan Owens
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