Re: [Evolution-hackers] How notifications work?

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 11:24 +0200, Cristian Vrabie wrote:
> Hi guys!
> I've been using Evolution for a long time, but only recently i decided
> to get look into the code and maybe give a hand with the development
> in the little free time i get. 
> I wanted to start small issue that interested me, more exactly why in
> KDE, when you receive a new message, the raised notification does not
> properly indicate the folder where the message ended up after
> filtering. I created this bug
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=605986 which apparently is
> not an Evolution issue but of libindicate. In order to fully
> understand that, can you give me a quick high level description of how
> notifications are raised by Evolution transparently of the
> notification library of the desktop environment?
> Thanks!
> Cristian 

	Hi,
Evolution is using a plugin to notify about new messages, and this
plugin is listening for events invoked by Evolution itself.
See the source code at [1] for more information.

Nonetheless, if I understand your request properly, then it was covered
by [2] and is part of the latest git master.

Note also that there are some settings in
Edit->Plugins->Mail-Notification, tab Configuration, where you can
influence how the notifications should behave.

If you are looking for some (usually) simple tasks, then there is a
keyword gnome-love, which developers use to mark some bugs as good for
beginners, thus maybe go through them. Note that something what might
look easy at the beginning can turn to be hard task. See the list for
evolution itself at [3].

[1] http://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/tree/plugins/mail-notification
[2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464400#c16
[3] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=keywords%
3Agnome-love+product%3A%22Evolution%22+

	Bye,
	Milan