Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] Refactoring the addressbook code

[Julien PUYDT <jpuydt free fr>]

Damien Sandras a écrit :
> The current behavior is part of a discussion that we had together 2
> years ago. I can understand you changed your mind in-between, however I
> do not think we can afford rewriting things that work for 2.2 or 3.00.
>
> With me being nearly alone coding on OPAL, we do not have the time to do
> complex changes on such things that are not user-visible.
>
> So if you tell me it will take you 2 evenings, then I will tell you: do
> it.
>
> If you tell me that it will take you 1 month, then I vote against it.
>
> If you are using a change -> signal -> modify approach, you will quickly
> see in the gmconf backend that the easiest way to do things is to
> rebuild entirely the address book for each change. That is not an
> option. So you will have to know in your GMConf callbacks what contact
> has been modified/deleted/added and modify only this one in the GUI.

Without a clean backend/frontend separation, the dbus component will not 
be able to work correctly with addressbooks :-/

Snark