Re: [Evolution] Does Evolution retrieve email even when it is not being run??

[JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>]

On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 15:40 -0800, Raul Acevedo wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 16:40 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
>
> > perhaps you'd like to enlighten us on how to set off calendar alarms
> > without having any processes running?
>
> I don't expect you to set off alarms when the process isn't running.
> This might sound strange, but it hadn't even occurred to me.  I only
> need the alarms when evolution is actually running.
>
> Having said that, it makes sense to have a background daemon... which
> should be optional.  Especially when the alarm daemon takes 60MB of RAM,
> and the data server takes over 70MB.  I suppose I can live with the
> background process, but it shouldn't take that much memory to run a
> simple alarm server.

No it shouldn't.

> For appointments that show up in the calendar panel applet, that should
> not require a background process after evolution quits.  No changes are
> going to happen to the schedule while I'm not logged in to evolution.
>
> Also, it should be possible to --force-shutdown from a shell without
> DISPLAY being set.  Should I file a bug for this, or is it by design?

There is already a bug, I contacted Ross Burton a couple of days ago
(our gnome slayer in eds) about making the killev tool not require a
display.  Evolution itself of course will always require an X display.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>
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