Re: [Evolution-hackers] GnomeDruid migration

[Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan novell com>]

Gillies,

On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 11:05 +0200, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I looked at the sources to get a feel of how easy it would be to migrate
> from GnomeDruid to GtkAssistant. I started some work on the startup
> config plugin and on the new mail account glade part. At that point,
> trying to create a new account just crashes evolution, so I decide to
> look deeper.
> 
> I found that currently wizards are intricated with notebooks in
> e-utils/e-config.c. Although it worked relatively well with GnomeDruid,
> I tried to adapt it to GtkAssistant without much success. It seems there
> is no easy way to get references to previous and next page other than by
> calculating the prev/next page id with GtkAssistant. On the other hand,
> integrating new pages into an assistant seems really easy.
> 
> So, what should be done here, indefinitely keep the current
> implementation or get rid of one more part of libgnomeui and simplifying
> evo's implementation ?

I would prefer to move to GtkAssistant but then it should still support
the existing EConfig structure. Hula/Groupwise/Exchange and other
providers will directly hook into EConfig via EPlugins.

I haven't yet seen much into GtkAssistant but it should be possible to
get it working.

-Srini.
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