Re: [Evolution-hackers] Patching Evolution to retrieve a list of emails and calendar events through DBUS

[Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan novell com>]

Hey Jo,

On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 13:41 +0100, Jo Vermeulen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering how hard it would be to patch Evolution (or write a
> plugin) to be able to retrieve a list of emails and calendar events
> through DBUS?
Shouldn't be that hard :). I think calendar has to be interfaced via EDS
than Evolution. This way even contacts can also take the advantage.

> 
> Is is possible to give me a few pointers on how I could do this? I have
> no experience with Evolution whatsoever.

What sort of pointers you need. Evolution has quite a few hooks where
you can plug code. We can add more hooks if required. But do you have a
plan of what you are trying to achieve through DBUS interface. I think
once you can close on that, we can easily expose hooks for the
evolution-dbus-plugin. For some hints to start with, you can looks at
the new-mail-notification plugin in Evolution which uses DBUS.

> 
> In my opinion, exposing a lot of Evolution's functionality through DBUS
> would allow for better integration in the desktop. 

Sure. This sounds exciting to me. 

Thanks
Srini.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
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