On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 07:02 -0400, Sankar P wrote: > On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 17:05 +0200, Diego González wrote: > > Hi, > > > > i have been trying to remove the account manager from evolution and > > write an application for it. > > Why ? It is for SPLIT. We are trying to remove account manager from Mail. Where to place it (Shell/Evolution or as a capplet) is in the discussion stage.
If you have some good thoughts, share it with us :-) -Srini > > > I am not sure what we want to achieve by creating another > capplet/application for configuring a new account. Is it because we can > pre-configure accounts ? (and that is the only thing that I could think > of) IIRC, evolution-gconf-tools module and ximian-account-setup tool > does this already. > > If simplifying the preferences is what you two are looking for, I think > it will be sufficient if we just get rid of the instantaneous > click-and-apply model and start using buttons to launch dialogs with > not-so-commonly-used-options. Once we do not show all the options, the > preferences will not look so crowded. > > As somebody was once mentioning, firefox also has as many configuration > options as Evo has. And the way in which it is presented, (See attached > Screenshot) makes it look simple whereas in Evo we show all the options, > as in http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000734.html > > > > > This is the current state of affairs: > > > > It is mostly working, i have removed some settings though as i though > > some of them should be in the mailing component itself: > > > > * Signatures > > Signatures are not part of Account Manager. The only thing that accounts > and signature have in unison is that an account can have a default > signature. > > > * Defaults (it deals with stuff that is just for a mailer) > > > > I'm temped to remove some other things such as: > > > > Receiving options tab (it deals only with email, and thus it can be on > > the mailing component itself) > > So where are you going to display all these ? Some of the information in > the receiving options page is so imporatant that without it some > account-types may not work at all (Like SOAP-Port for GW). > > > > > > > Other than that the beast is almost finished, i will post it as soon as > > everything works. > > I don't understand the need for detaching the account setup from > Evolution. > > > > > Diego > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Evolution-hackers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Sankar > Novell Evolution Hacker _______________________________________________ Evolution-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
