Op 23-feb-07, om 19:08 heeft Veerapuram Varadhan het volgende geschreven:
> On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 17:15 +0100, Jo Vermeulen wrote: >> On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 08:58 -0700, Veerapuram Varadhan wrote: >>> On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 21:06 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote: >>>> On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 16:12 +0100, Jo Vermeulen wrote: >>>>> On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 18:28 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote: >>>>>> Hey Jo, >>>>>> >>>>>> On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 13:41 +0100, Jo Vermeulen wrote: >>>>>>> Hello, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I was wondering how hard it would be to patch Evolution (or >>>>>>> write a >>>>>>> plugin) to be able to retrieve a list of emails and calendar >>>>>>> events >>>>>>> through DBUS? >>>>>> Shouldn't be that hard :). I think calendar has to be >>>>>> interfaced via EDS >>>>>> than Evolution. This way even contacts can also take the >>>>>> advantage. >>>>> >>>>> I am looking into something that won't take me a week or so to >>>>> implement :-) >>>>> >>>>>>> Is is possible to give me a few pointers on how I could do >>>>>>> this? I have >>>>>>> no experience with Evolution whatsoever. >>>>>> >>>>>> What sort of pointers you need. Evolution has quite a few >>>>>> hooks where >>>>>> you can plug code. We can add more hooks if required. But do >>>>>> you have a >>>>>> plan of what you are trying to achieve through DBUS interface. >>>>> >>>>> What we want to do is create an application that enables you to >>>>> link >>>>> your emails, contacts, calendar items and the like. For now, we >>>>> could >>>>> use DBUS to interface with Gaim and Tomboy, but Evolution is a >>>>> bit more >>>>> troublesome. >>>>> >>>>> In fact we would like to get a list of emails that have the label >>>>> "Todo", and a set of calendar events for a certain date. >>>> Wow. Sounds interesting :) >>> Calendar/Contacts can still be queried using Evolution#, which is >>> currently used by Beagle. However, querying mails is not yet >>> supported >>> in Evolution#. >> >> Indeed, that would be another possibility. However, Evolution# has no >> documentation. If anyone could help me get started with Evolution# >> that >> would be great! >> > If you check-out evolution-sharp, you would see evolution/ > TestCal.cs and > evolution/TestBook.cs - these files help you to understand how to use > the basic APIs. > > Alternatively, you can checkout: > http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/beagle/trunk/beagle/beagled/ > EvolutionDataServerQueryable/CalContainer.cs? > revision=3170&view=markup - for Calendar APIs > and > http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/beagle/trunk/beagle/beagled/ > EvolutionDataServerQueryable/BookContainer.cs? > revision=3223&view=markup - for Contacts APIs Thanks! >>>>>> I think >>>>>> once you can close on that, we can easily expose hooks for the >>>>>> evolution-dbus-plugin. For some hints to start with, you can >>>>>> looks at >>>>>> the new-mail-notification plugin in Evolution which uses DBUS. >>>>> >>>>> I had a look at that indeed, but I'm not sure how these plugins >>>>> can be >>>>> loaded dynamically. Is it possible for me to develop a plugin, >>>>> load it >>>>> into Evolution and try it out? This would enable rapid >>>>> prototyping which >>>>> would speed up development ;-) >>>> You can google at tnef plugin which Notzed wrote long back. It was >>>> written/compiled separately and loaded dynamically into >>>> Evolution. So it >>>> is possible to load dynamically. >>>> >>> Even if a plugin is written, you cannot get the notification >>> unless you >>> run Evolution - so, whatever your application is will have a >>> hard-dependency on a running version of evolution. Just a thought. >> >> Yes indeed, but isn't this a problem for Evolution# as well? >> Doesn't it >> also need a running instance of Evolution? > Evolution# doesn't need a running instance of Evolution - since, it is > confined to only Calendar and Contacts. We had a mail-remote-glue > written in Evolution# that would talk to evolution using > bonobo-interface, but, we pulled it back. Oh I see. I thought evolution-data-server would only run when Evolution was running as well... Thanks! -- Jo Vermeulen Expertise Centre for Digital Media - Hasselt University Wetenschapspark 2 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium tel: +32-11-268411 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jozilla.be/ _______________________________________________ Evolution-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
