Op 23-feb-07, om 19:18 heeft Srinivasa Ragavan het volgende geschreven: > On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 11:08 -0700, Veerapuram Varadhan wrote: >> 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 >> >>>>>>> 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. > > Alternatively, you can have a look at the mail-remote plugin under > Evolution, which reads > > <_description>A plugin which implements a CORBA > interface for accessing mail data remotely.</_description>
OK thanks! It might be useful as a base for a possible DBUS interface. Cheers, -- 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
