Re: [Evolution-hackers] Since evolution-alarm-notify asks for passwords

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam opengroupware us>]

On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 08:36 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> > My question is whether there can be done any better way of coping with
> > this, because having the password prompts (there are two pilled,
> > actually) after each and every login is just a bad experience, from my
> > point of view.
> (Gesticulating wildly about vaporware...)
> One thing I wanted to add after all this account rewrite stuff is done
> (maybe for 3.6) is support for VPN state.  My thought was any place in
> Evolution where you would enter host and port information there would
> also be a check box item with a combo box listing all available VPN
> connection names as configured in NetworkManager.

+1 +1 +1

That would be awesome [being able to associate an account to either
'general' network status or a specific VPN connection / Network
profile].  I have accounts that only work with the VPN up; and it is
irritating sometimes when Evo insists on trying to access them when no
connectivity is available.

> Something like:
>    [x] Requires an active VPN connection to [ My Company's VPN |v]
> The VPN ID would get stored in the data source's key file.

+1 + 1 +1