Re: [evolution-patches] UI patch - for GW system address book/GAL

[Sushma Rai <rsushma novell com>]

I have attached the new patch.

In case of backend not specifying do-initial-query and
being editable I am using a different message.

Thanks,
Sushma.

Sivaiah Nallagatla wrote:
> Few comments below 
> To get a reference to book we can just do 
> g_object_get (view->adapter, "book", &book, NULL);
> in set_empty_message. we need not add a new function for this.
>
> Also a backend may not specify do-initial-query but still can be
> editable, for example ldap backend, so the message setting logic should
> be as follows .
>
> if(no initial query) 
>   {
>     if (editable) 
>           show "search for conacts, double clikc to create one"
>     else 
>          show "search for contacts"
> }
>  else {
>        if (editable)
>        show "there are no items in this view, doble click to create one"
>        else 
>            show "there are no items in this view"
>   }
>
> Siva
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 13:38 +0530, Sushma Rai wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > There were couple of mails on the lists, about 
> > Global address list, in Exchange connector 
> > not being intuitive, that one need to search
> > for contacts and they are not fetched by default.
> >
> > This patch sets a different message, in such cases.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sushma.

Index: gui/widgets/e-minicard-view.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gnome/evolution/addressbook/gui/widgets/e-minicard-view.c,v
retrieving revision 1.66
diff -u -r1.66 e-minicard-view.c
--- gui/widgets/e-minicard-view.c	2 Nov 2004 08:36:05 -0000	1.66
+++ gui/widgets/e-minicard-view.c	26 Nov 2004 06:36:08 -0000
@@ -153,19 +153,33 @@
 set_empty_message (EMinicardView *view)
 {
 	char *empty_message;
-	gboolean editable = FALSE;
+	gboolean editable = FALSE, perform_initial_query = FALSE;
+	EBook *book;
 
 	if (view->adapter) {
 		g_object_get (view->adapter,
 			      "editable", &editable,
 			      NULL);
+
+		g_object_get (view->adapter, "book", &book, NULL);
+		if (!e_book_check_static_capability (book, "do-initial-query"))
+			perform_initial_query = TRUE;
 	}
 
-	if (editable)
-		empty_message = _("\n\nThere are no items to show in this view.\n\n"
-				  "Double-click here to create a new Contact.");
-	else
-		empty_message = _("\n\nThere are no items to show in this view.");
+	if (editable) {
+		if (perform_initial_query)
+			empty_message = _("\n\nSearch for the Contact\n\n"
+					  "or double-click here to create a new Contact.");
+		else
+			empty_message = _("\n\nThere are no items to show in this view.\n\n"
+					  "Double-click here to create a new Contact.");
+	}
+	else {
+		if (perform_initial_query)
+			empty_message = _("\n\nSearch for the Contact.");
+		else
+			empty_message = _("\n\nThere are no items to show in this view.");
+	}
 
 	g_object_set (view,
 		      "empty_message", empty_message,