Re: retrieving contact list: works in looking-glass, not in extension

[Amy Chan <mathematical coffee gmail com>]

On 25/04/12 07:03, Giovanni Campagna wrote:
> There is no kind of sandboxing for extensions, whatever you're doing
> from lg should be available from extensions. Note though that enable()
> is called very early, and contact lists are loaded asynchronously by
> libfolks. It may be possible contacts are not yet available by the
> time your extension is loaded.
> Currently ShellContactSystem does not notify of completed loading
> (even though libfolks does). You can file a bug and ask for a signal
> if you need it. You could also try bypassing ShellContactSystem, but I
> don't recommend it.
>
> Giovanni

Wow, thanks for that! It turns out putting a delay (I used 5 seconds) 
before loading the contact list did the trick. I guess I just have to 
wait for the completed loading.

cheers!