On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 10:56 +0530, Sankar P wrote: > On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 21:20 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > <quote who="Alexander Larsson"> > > > > > This is kinda a backward question. The reason you want to split it out is > > > of course not because you want to use the mailer without the addressbook, > > > it is because you want to use the address book without the mailer. > > > > ... and you can provide a deliciously optimised user experience for both use > > cases. It's worth looking at the user experience of the OS X communications > > tools, and possibly even the Windows Vista ones (although they're definitely > > uglier) to see why this is such a good way to go. It would be *FANTASTIC* to > > see Evolution become a suite of wonderful, focused applications instead of > > the Outlook clone it is today (and, sure, designed to be). > > The components of Evolution are loosely ties to the Evolution shell, so > that you can use any component without other components loaded at all. > > To answer Alexander, if you have at least one account configured, you > can directly launch Evolution Addressbook without ever having anything > to do with Mail component. If you launch "Evolution Addressbook" from > your gnome main menu, it should not ask your IMAP password. If it does, > it is a bug, please file that.
This is one of the assumptions which the split patches broke. The UAM [1] would fix all these things. -Srini [1] - http://www.go-evolution.org/UAM (Unified Account Management) _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
