Re: [Evolution] Feature requests: modularity & imap caching...

[Frederic Vanneste <TheMatriX matrixlab be>]

On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 14:10, Dan Winship wrote:
> > > seconded. Calendar, Tasklist, Summary is not used here. Why are they
> > > loaded?
> >
> > I rarely use these, but a coworker uses them (same box, two different X
> > servers). Why not demand-load them, so one doesn't take the startup hit
> > until one tries to use them?
>
> Because then everyone would complain that it took too long for the 
> calendar to pop up the first time you clicked on it. :-)

I think if you choose _not_ to start the calendar, then there shouldn't
even be a button 'calendar' to click on in the first place...

> Another reason which no one has mentioned yet is that the shell doesn't 
> know all of the folders that will exist. For instance, if you flip the 
> examples around and don't start up the mail component until the user 
> clicks on a mail folder, then you wouldn't have any IMAP folders until 
> you clicked on a local mail folder first, which would be annoying. 
> (Likewise for LDAP folders and local contacts.)
What would would be nice is something like this:

  $ evolution --help
     
        --no-calendar           Start evo w/out calendar
        --no-summary            ...

I guess this would essentially make it a mail-client, nothing more,
so there shouldn't even be icons for the calendar/summary/tasks/etc...
I guess if these are given at startup, you can enable/disable a lot
of things... Correct me if I'm wrong here, I'm not much of a 
programmer...
You must realise that a lot of people _will_ just use it as a
mail-client, so it would be a *really* nice feat. 
I'm running it like that now, and I really like it like that... load
times are *much* better (closing times too, duh!)...
Well, I think it's just something to consider, I guess a lot of people
would like such a lightweight feature-full mailclient like evolution...
People would even be able to use it on *very* low-end machines, I
guess...

> I know Ettore was thinking recently about making component startup be 
> delayed though. One way this could work would be for the shell (or 
> actually, the wombat) to keep track of the complete folder tree between 
> sessions. This could be nice for other reasons too.
>
> -- Dan

ThanX,

Frederic

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