Re: [Evolution] Suspending/resuming

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

There is no such command line option (in any version!).

Though you could probably write a very small program which triggers it.
Or a fairly trivial patch which adds the command line option.

The shell interface can be retrieved using bonobo-activation, and it has
a simple method which should do it (although as with any shell methods,
what they appear they should do, and what they will do aren't always in
accordance).

e.g. something like this might work (haven't tried compiling it, I leave
it as exercise to reader to get it to compile and/or even work).
Although it will start evolution if it isn't already running which is
probably an undesirable side-effect - solve that yourself too.


#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

#include <libbonobo.h>

/* could just compile the idl separately, no need for shell */
#include "shell/Evolution.h"

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
        int state = 1, i;
        GNOME_Evolution_Shell shell;

        bonobo_init(&argc, argv);

        for (i=1;i<argc;i++) {
                if (!strcmp(argv[i], "--offline"))
                        state = 0;
                else if (!strcmp(argv[i], "--offline"))
                        state = 1;
        }

        /* version might need changing to suit evolution version */
        shell =
bonobo_activation_activate_from_id("OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Shell:2.4",
0, NULL, &ev);
        if (ev._major != CORBA_NO_EXCEPTION) {
                printf("Cannot activate shell\n");
                return 1;
        }

        GNOME_Evolution_Shell_setLineStatus(shell, state, &ev);
        if (ev._major != CORBA_NO_EXCEPTION) {
                printf("Cannot set line state\n");
                return 1;
        }

        return 0;
}


On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 18:38 +0200, Koen Vermeer wrote:
> Hi Harish,
>
> On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 20:42 +0530, Harish Krishnaswamy wrote:
> >  Which version of evolution are you using ?
>
> Sorry, I didn't mention that explicitly. It's 2.2.3.
>
> > there isn't any desktop-wide standard yet on how an application might 
> > know if the network has gone down (as a whole) or if it is just its
> > connection with a given server that is somehow in trouble.
>
> I know, but I could think of ways to handle that, such as trying again
> after a timeout. I'm not saying that's what Evolution should do, I just
> don't know all the internals of Evolution.
>
> > You could have evolution go offline by clicking on the 'network icon' on
> > the bottom left of your application window - so it explicitly drops the
> > connections.  You may observe that depending on your settings, evolution
> > takes some time to download content for offline use and
> > hence might not go offline instantly.
>
> I know about the offline mode, which is what I use sometimes as well.
> But if I know I'll be online after the next resume, I'd rather not do
> that. Besides, hibernating/suspending the computer should be done by
> just a press on the right key. Otherwise, I'll end up shutting down all
> the programs manually first, and then suspending :-)
> So, I was just wondering if maybe there is a command-line interface to
> Evolution that would take care of it. Some option to cause Evo to
> reconnect (or go offline) or something like that.
>
> Thanks!
> Koen
>
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