Re: [evolution-patches] (no subject)

[Parthasarathi Susarla <sparthasarathi novell com>]

The mailer & camel part looks ok to me.
You should wait for harish approval on the Shell part.

Also you should really be having a configure flag to build/not-build
Network manager support into evolution, since its *not* shipped in a
gnome release. (I know it means a lot of ifdefs, but until we have
Network Manager in, we probably need to follow this)

Cheers,
partha


On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 16:00 +0530, Shreyas Sriniavasan wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Attaching the first few patches which dwell into Network Manager 
> support for Evolution. Things which work in these patches
> 
> 1) Evolution goes offline automagically if the network goes down. 
> 2) Evolution goes online automagically if the network comes up and
> syncs 
> up mail, contacts whatever.
> 3) If the network goes down when a sync is happening then evolution
> cancels the event and goes offline
> 
> Things to be done 
> 
> 1) Journalling: Although i havent tested this thoroughly my code
> intution 
> says that if some operation are done and then network goes down and
> evolution goes offline then these operations are not journalled and
> re-played. Ofcourse the operations which happen after evolution goes
> offline are journalled anyway and replayed later.
> 
> 2) Good UI support: Right now the only Ui which depicts that evolution 
> is offline is tiny weeny icon at the bottom of the screen. When we move 
> to a state where evolution can transiently disconnect and re-connect
> depending on the network, I personally would like to have Evolution
> (Disconnected) on the Title bar. 
> 
> 3) Paranoid conditions checking: 
> i)  Should we allow users to switch from offline to online when the
> network is down ?
> ii) Should we allow users to start in online when the network is down ?
> 
> I havent addressed these issues due to acute shortage of hacking time
> before the next release. I have tested the code decently ( not
> perfectly) and it *just works* (TM).
> 
> Cheers,
> Shreyas
> 
> 
> 
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