On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 01:26 +0000, Kirk Wolff wrote: > On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 14:23 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 19:49 +0100, Onyeibo Oku wrote: > > > On 01/21/2011 06:30 PM, Kirk Wolff wrote: > > > > Is there a way to add child-addressbooks under an addressbook account > > > > with evolution's GUI? I don't see any current implementations that have > > > > a 'tree' of addressbooks under an addressbook plugin type. As I see it, > > > > there are plugins for setting up an addressbook, but not for displaying > > > > and organizing them. It seems the presentation (the left-hand column > > > > list) of addressbooks is fixed. Is there a simple way to add and > > > > maintain a tree in the list of addressbooks? > > > I don't see any special benefit for this feature. > > The use case seems *obvious* to be; especially for WebDAV address books > > since WebDAV supports hierarchical collections [although > > CalDAV/CardDAV/GroupDAV all place restrictions on how child collections > > can be structured]. > > If you have multiple server-side collections of contacts you currently > > have to define multiple addressbooks rather than just one that can > > expand to list the collections - even supporting descending a single > > level of collections would be *very* useful. > I agree, from the CardDAV spec, its natural to want to show all of the > available addressbooks with a single sign-on, especially if the spec > supports it. > My primary question here is not whether it should be done, but how to > do it from within a plugin. > I presume from your response that its currently not possible but may > be possible if a plugin is written to allow it.
I'd almost swear that at some point in the last 10+ years I've seen an addressbook-tree; but it certainly doesn't happen currently. > Can anyone provide some direction as to how to write this plugin? Sadly I can't be of any help there. Perhaps looking at code in the Exchange or Groupwise plugins might tell you something. _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
