Re: [Evolution] WebID integration

[Dan Vrátil <dvratil redhat com>]

On Tuesday 02 of October 2012 02:10:33 Jürgen Jakobitsch wrote:
> hi,

Hi,

> my name is jürgen jakobitsch. i'm a member of w3c's webid community
> group [1].
>
> we are currently debating about signed emails which in include a webID
> [2][3].
>
> i just filed an enhancement bug report [4], because Subject's
> Alternative Names are not displayed when i open a certificate.
>
> From what i can tell from source it is kind of trivial to include
> support for displaying the values of SAN.
>
> my question however is :
>
> is it possible to change certificate-viewer.c (smime/gui) behaviour via
> an ePlugin?
> what i intend to do is to create WebID support in evolution in such a
> way the i can retrieve information about a webID, which comes with a
> signed mail (in der certificate's SAN) or do i have to change the source
> code and build evolution myself?
>
> also please note, i'm a total gnome development newbie, so any pointer
> to some sort of ePlugin template i can use as a starter is warmly
> welcome.
>
> please also note that a webID is basically a URI pointing to a foaf
> document, like this : http://www.turnguard.com/turnguard.
>
> what i wanna do is to add another tab to certificate viewer and display
> the name (http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/givenName in the above example) and
> the picture (http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/depiction in the above example).

> any pointer and|or help greatly appreciated.

I think this cannot be achieved through ePlugin. But we are planning to slowly 
get rid of ePlugins, so it wouldn't be the best approach anyway.

There are two possibilities: either make the certificate viewer extensible and 
write an extension module, or just build it into Evolution directly. I myself 
think that making the UI extensible is pointless since nobody else would ever 
use it, so it could probably go into the certificate-viewer directly. 

If you need help, just ask on IRC (#evolution on irc.gimp.net)

Cheers,
Dan

PS: technical discussions belong to evolution-hackers list

> wkr turnguard
>
>
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/community/webid/
> [2] http://webid.info/
> [3] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/spec/
> [4] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685230
>
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