Re: [evolution-patches] Re: Various libebook patches

[Chris Toshok <toshok ximian com>]

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 07:01, Dan Winship wrote:
> > > If we're going to have default folders, we need to do them for real like
> > > in 1.4. If we're not, then the user always needs to be able to choose
> > > what folder to use, and the code always needs to work with ESources, and
> > > there shouldn't be a "get local addressbook" call, because it will just
> > > encourage people to write broken code.
> > 
> > I had totally forgotten about the "Default Folders" option in
> > Evolution...
> > 
> > Keep e_book_get_default_addressbook() and it should return what the user
> > has set as the Default in Evo. Makes perfect sense!
> 
> The problem is that the current plan is to not have the default folders
> settings in 2.0.

Yeah, not having default folders is really the only reason to have the
local addressook call.  It's the only addressbook we can be sure should
exist (and that the user might want to use to store stuff) and a call
like that goes a long way to making things easier for people writing
ebook code, especially where you don't really want to make the user make
a choice of all their possible contact folders (non-gui apps).

Implementing a default folder setting is trivial with the new ESource
stuff (just add a defaultfolder="true" property to that source.)  We
*could* make the default folder stuff actually work and just not use it
from evolution.  Add an e_book_set_default_addressbook call as well,
make it default to "On This Computer/Personal"...

Chris