Hi All, Some of the issues that were discussed (here and in #496839) and my personal take on them will be:
1) Plugin list being un-manageable I am thinking of adding a smart-search-box which will query based on plugin-names and pre-defined-tags associated with each plugin. This will make it easy to find out the plugin that you are looking for. Do you have any suggestion for how you want the Evolution Plugin-manager to look like ? Can you send any mockups that you have in mind ? 2) Some plugins should not be shown This may not be possible as people may not want a functionality implemented by a plugin. Disabling this plugin helps them to save screen-real-estate (menu-items etc) and reduces memory foot-print. If any of the core feature is implemented as a plugin, I accept that it should not be shown in the plugin-manager and will happily remove it from the plugin-manager list. (It should have been core-code than a plugin in the first place though) HTTP Calendars and IMAP Featuers are not core features since it may not be needed by everyone. Say a corporate Evolution-GroupWise user. 3) Splitting Evolution into individual applications I have seen this asked by people a few times. But I wonder what good a mail-client or Calendar-client will be without an addressbook. Evolution shell will not load a component (Tasks or Notes) unless you click open the component (except for addressbook) explicitly. But some people have a mis-conception that all components are always loaded (and hence consumes memory etc.) IMHO a better approach will be to make the user choose what components he want to see in his Switcher. Say if someone wants to use only Mailer and Address-book, do not bother showing the Calendar component in the switcher. Atleast for me, It will be far more useful than launching two or three applications everyday morning (Mail/Calendar/Tasks) 4) Evolution Preferences Dialog is Horrendous Yes. This is a terrible thing to have especially when you are working in low resolution. The reason why this was so mammoth was because even the plugin configurations were added to the General preferences. >From 2.12 onwards, we have Configure support for plugins and hence people can configure plugins within the plugin-manager window itself. attachment-reminder plugin's configure UI has been already moved from General preferences to Plugin-Manager-Configure already. Work is on for Automatic-Contacts and other plugins already. One another option will be to show the preferences of the current component alone. Like if you launch preferences from Mailer component then only Mailer preferences should be shown. -- Sankar Gnome-Evolution Plugins Maintainer Novell, Inc. Software for the Open Enterpriseā¢ http://www.novell.com _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list