Re: [evolution-patches] (no subject)

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>]

Le mardi 15 novembre 2005 à 16:34 -0500, David Malcolm a écrit :
> 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
> 
> I've got a feeling that NetworkManager's dbus interface doesn't have an
> API guarantee at the moment.
> 
> I just chatted to one of the lead coders on NetworkManager (Chris
> Aillon) and he thinks it makes more sense for applications to use the
> GLib bindings to NetworkManager, rather than the underlying DBus
> calls.  
> 
> Here's the GLib NM API:
> 
> http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/NetworkManager/gnome/libnm_glib/libnm_glib.h?view=markup
> 
> And here's an example of using that API to monitor changes in networking state:
> 
> http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/NetworkManager/test/libnm_glib_test.c?view=markup

I'm not a big fan of that : it means it will requires network manager
library even for people / distributions not using / shipping Network
Manager. Using d-bus calls directly would allow distributions not
shipping Network Manager to still send the correct d-bus event with
their own network layer.

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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>
Mandriva