Re: [evolution-patches] #54338:Problem with vFolders of same name.

[Bill Zhu <bill zhu sun com>]

I have looked through the source code again.
I find the reason why this bug exists. It is because the vfolders are
stored in a hash table where using their folder name as their hash key.
I am thinking about how to make it possible to allow them share same
name.


在2004年02月15日的00:07，Jeffrey Stedfast写道：
> we should allow vfolders and filters to share the same names. we should
> also allow 2 filters to share the same name *if* their sources are
> different.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 01:38, Bill Zhu wrote:
> > I got it, The filter and vfolder are using the same dialog.
> > I think it is a hard work to permit the existance of rules with same
> > name.Because I find tons of bugs caused by permitting this. for example
> > adding two rules but just one vfolder,and when I delete one of the
> > rules,the other is deleted too.
> > so I think may be it is a good solution to make 2 vfolders cann't have
> > the same name. although it affects filters, it is also ok. Can we make
> > the filters cann't have the same name neither?
> > 
> > 
> > 在2004年02月14日的00:26，Jeffrey Stedfast写道：
> > > this patch is wrong, it is perfectly valid to have 2 filters named the
> > > same where the sources differ. If you want to make it so that 2 vfolders
> > > cannot have the same name, that's fine, but this patch also affects
> > > filters.
> > > 
> > > Jeff
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 09:49, Bill Zhu wrote:
> > > > The rule-editor judges whether two rules is identical by both the rule
> > > > name and the source. We need judge only by rule name.	
> > > > because there should not exist two rules has the same name.
> > > > 	http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=54338