Re: [evolution-patches] Expunge events

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>]

On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 16:54, Dan Winship wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 18:16, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > These 2 patches implement the Expunge menu item in the calendar, which
> > allows to remove events older than a given date, thus having a way to
> > clean up the calendar.
> 
> Given that this has a different meaning from the mailer's "Expunge"
> command, it might be good to have a different name. (Although "Expunge"
> is what Palm OS calls it, right?)
> 
on mine, it's called Purge.

> > So, I guess we need to have a cal_client_remove_objects call, or a way
> > to disable notifications temporarily (much more difficult, since we have
> > the query cache in the backend library).
> 
> Yes, this is even more important for remote backends. Exchange will let
> you bulk delete objects, which is much much faster than deleting them
> one-by-one.
> 
yes, seems the best way. If no-one objects, I'll add a remove_objects
method to the IDL. JP, anything wrong on that, given the backend changes
we're going to do?

cheers