Re: [Evolution] email as alarm type

[Iain <iain ximian com>]

On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 01:34, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 16:59, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote:
> > Actually I want to embed appletes in the summary page as well, I think
> > this would be welcome by many people, imagine logging in, evo starts,
> > defaults to the summary page where it tells you the normal stuff about
> > mail, but also lets you (as big chief or whatever) see an online live
> > graph of sales by region, store or what ever vs profit etc etc.  Far
> > more than just a list of new articles on some web site...
>
> The old summary code allowed this, by embedding Bonobo controls in the
> summary view, but was "too flexible" and we decided to make something
> more hard-coded instead.  The flexibility is very likely to come back in
> the future.

There is also a bug/design flaw/limitation in BonoboControls when
dealing with reparenting out-of-process ones, ie you can't.

Mr Meeks is well aware of the situation (and frets about it constantly I
believe), however I don't know how/if he is planning to fix it, as he
says it's not an easy problem to solve.

iain
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