Re: [PATCH] Expense conduit

[Eskil Heyn Olsen <deity dbc dk>]

On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Patrick Decowski wrote:

> 	- what is the default Sync directory if the user does not 
> 	specify where? i chose ~/pilot/Expense - the 'pilot' coming
> 	from the backup conduit. 

Probably quite ok for now, but perhaps I should add a get_pilot_dir call
for the conduits, that returns whatever the user wants, and conduits then
place directories there unless the user has specified an absolute path.

> 	- do we just use g_error and g_warning if errors occur inside
> 	the conduit while syncing? shouldn't there be a more uniform 
> 	dialog box, so that it is absolutely clear that the error has 
> 	to do with gnome-pilot?

The error dialog (I presume you mean the sigsegv error box) is a
GnomeThing, not gpilotd. You should not use g_error unlesss extremely
absolutely muymuy important. Muymuy important is eg. mallocing 10 bytes
and failing.

> 	- can anyone think of a nicer 'filepermissions' interface than
> 	numeric values? 

Start gmc, rightclick one of the icons, choose properties and choose
permissions. Thats an ok interface, perhaps you can rip it from gmc.

> 	- some other stuff, but i forgot... time for bed? 

Most likely, it always is.

> anyway, below is the patch. the patch modifies the configure.in and
> conduits/Makefile.am files and has the new conduits/expense
> directory.

Excellente. I've the whole thing to CVS. If you want to maintain/expand 
it, you should get CVS access. Mail me a login and an encrypted password
(like the ones in /etc/passwd, but not the one you use, for security
reasons), and I can ask Miguel to open a CVS account for you.

> have fun and don't spend too much money trying it - if you do, you 

Luckily I've only used the pilots expense to track company money :)

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