Re: [Evolution-hackers] Base URI for "On This Computer"

[chen <pchenthill novell com>]

On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 06:32 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 09:18 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> > Are you going to change ESourceGroup's base_uri to contain only the
> > protocol for all the ESourceGroups? If yes, then I think it's not the
> > best thing, because for example evolution-mapi uses as base uri
> > "mapi://user server/", and each account you have configured and enabled
> > in the preferences has its own group. It cannot be distinguished just by
> > "mapi://", because for example (I believe) every user has its default
> > calendar named "Calendar".
> 
> No, I'm not touching MAPI, only trying to fix the absolute path problem
> with the "On This Computer" group.  Maybe instead of using "file://",
> which already has an established meaning, we should just make one up so
> the real absolute file system path is implicit.  Perhaps "local://", so
> e_source_get_uri() would return "local://<<source-uid>>" and that would
> fully describe an "On This Computer" source in the context of a given
> source list.
Changing the uri to local:// might break other applications who depend
on the uri to check if its a local calendar source. I could not
understand what kind of problems changing uri solves.. Is it really
necessary to change the uri ?  Just looked at one such case in a test
program, test-ecal.c.

- Chenthill.
> 
> Again, as far as I can tell the URI just needs to uniquely identify the
> source.  It's not used -verbatim- to open files or connect to servers.
> 
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