Re: [Evolution-hackers] application integration standard proposal

[Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan novell com>]

On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 22:10 +0200, Olivier Sessink wrote:
> Dear Evolution developers and community,
> 
> with several people I have designed a proposal for a standard to allow 
> different communication programs on Linux to integrate a little more 
> (from the end user perspective).
> 
> An example: "The end user is using a IM client, where the he's notified 
> in the chat window that a new email arrived from the same person he's 
> chatting to (even if the IM account is different from the email 
> account). The user may right click this buddy in the IM client, and in 
> the context menu it says you have unread mail from this person, and the 
> context menu will allow you to email this user (open a compose window)"

IIRC Banter is trying to do this. Unfortunately the mails aren't
query-able unlike contacts/calendar. Without that, this isn't possible.
I promised the Banter guys that I can provide a dbus interface to query
mails, but unfortunately that has a dependency over the running presence
of instance of Evolution.

-Srini.
> 
> The draft standard how to do this is at 
> http://olivier.sessink.nl/publications/UCII/
> 
> In the end I would like to submit this to freedesktop.org, but I first 
> would like to discuss the idea with the communities of the most well 
> known open source communication programs, and improve it.
> 
> Can you give me some feedback on the idea, and if such a standard would 
> be adopted by Evolution (if formalised by freedesktop.org).
> 
> kind regards,
> 
>      Olivier Sessink
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