Re: [Evolution-hackers] ESourceExtension and backends... "claimed" generic property ?

[Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>]

On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 17:02 +0100, Milan Crha wrote:
> that sounds new to me, as I recall some exchange plugins did change
> capabilities based on user preferences. As an example, one could setup
> GAL "browsable" in preferences, in which case the capabilities property
> had been populated with one more item, which let evolution's Contacts
> view know that it can do initial search, instead of claiming "Search for
> Contacts". I hope it's still doable (I didn't check it), and as such it
> requires an instance of the EBookBackend descendant.

Sure.  It makes sense for backends to continue advertising their own
capabilities -- static and non-static like "browsable".

I'm just suggesting a way to peek at a backend's known capabilities
ahead of time without having to instantiate it.