Re: [Evolution] A Question About Add-On Availability

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Tue, 2017-04-11 at 14:44 -0500, Frank M Waterman wrote:
> I know that OpenOffice has a couple of rather good
> grammar and punctuation extensions (that is there term of art, as I'm
> sure you are all aware) and it got me to thinking could those
> extensions be adapted to be incorporated into Evolution?

        Hi,
I'm not aware of anything like that for Evolution. Evolution uses
enchant for spell checking, though I'm afraid it doesn't have anything
for punctuation, but I do not know it, I only think it.

> 2) I know that people involved intimately with Evolution are working
> on modifying it programming so that Evolution will be
> more...compliant doesn't seem the right word, but more standardized
> with other Open Source programs in the way others may create programs
> that add to Evolution's versatility.

Interesting. I'm not aware of it too, somehow. Evolution has some API
for creating plugins, then it has a similar API for creating modules,
which is similar to plugins, but newer and more tight to the internals.
If you mean to let extend (with modules) certain parts of Evolution,
then yes, it's possible to add (in most cases, though trying to extend
message composer in the way you are looking for, which involves also
WebKit2, is not that trivial). Nonetheless, the composer is already
extensible and modules can be written for it.

        Bye,
        Milan