Re: [Evolution] Remote access to calendar/task list

[Ross Boylan <ross biostat ucsf edu>]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 11:42:00AM +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 16:54 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> > Sometimes I'd like to check my calendar or todo list from another
> > computer (connected via ssh).
> >
> > One solution would be to start evolution in a remote X session.  But the
> > connection is dialup, so I'd rather not.  (Also, is it OK to have two
> > copies of evolution running?)
> >
> > I'm dimly aware that evolution has a bit of a client server
> > architecture, judging by all the components that come up.  But I'm not
> > familiar with how GNOME handles this.  Is there some way to talk across
> > machines?
>
> Not really, it is a local service only.  You could write a text-mode
> client accessing the same data ... but it isn't really the same thing.
I thought the core GNOME machinery was based on CORBA, and so the
components didn't care whether they were local or remote.