Re: [Evolution] text-mode shell anyone?

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 03:27, Michael Kaminsky wrote:
> Not Zed [notzed ximian com] wrote:
> > I started writing a text mode mailer, but that wasn't going to use any
> > corba or bonobo or whatever, and i only spent a day on it anyway.
> >
> > Using the component system will give you very little benefit in a text
> > mode environment.  You can't invoke component 'controls' as they stand
> > currently as they are all X-windows widgets.
> >
> > You can still query the addressbook and calendar via corba though, which
> > is useful for a text mode client.
>
> In the evolution source there's a command-line test program for the
> calendar client that I modified to dump out the appointments I have
> for the next few days.  My only problem is that it still requires X.
> The gnome_init() function exits if X isn't running.  Removing that
> call causes all sorts of things to break.
>
> Is it possible to use the calendar client code without gnome/X (I'm
> not so familiar with the Corba/Bonobo/Gnome programming and how they
> interact.)

Yeah I think so.

You might be able to get away with just calling gtk_type_init(), or
perhaps gnomelib_init(), and/or CORBA_ORB_init() ... something along
those lines.

The wombat code shouldn't require X, although it does call gnome_init,
so i dunno ...

Try contacting the author of that test program, i'm not sure if they're
active on this list.