On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 22:10 +0200, Olivier Sessink wrote: > Dear Evolution developers and community, > > with several people I have designed a proposal for a standard to allow > different communication programs on Linux to integrate a little more > (from the end user perspective). > > An example: "The end user is using a IM client, where the he's notified > in the chat window that a new email arrived from the same person he's > chatting to (even if the IM account is different from the email > account). The user may right click this buddy in the IM client, and in > the context menu it says you have unread mail from this person, and the > context menu will allow you to email this user (open a compose window)"
IIRC Banter is trying to do this. Unfortunately the mails aren't query-able unlike contacts/calendar. Without that, this isn't possible. I promised the Banter guys that I can provide a dbus interface to query mails, but unfortunately that has a dependency over the running presence of instance of Evolution. -Srini. > > The draft standard how to do this is at > http://olivier.sessink.nl/publications/UCII/ > > In the end I would like to submit this to freedesktop.org, but I first > would like to discuss the idea with the communities of the most well > known open source communication programs, and improve it. > > Can you give me some feedback on the idea, and if such a standard would > be adopted by Evolution (if formalised by freedesktop.org). > > kind regards, > > Olivier Sessink > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers _______________________________________________ Evolution-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
