On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 06:26 -0500, Larry Ewing wrote: > On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 16:51 -0500, Anna M Dirks wrote: > > Greetings all. > > > > The purpose of this mail is to solicit feedback from you about a > > possible redesign of the tools used to add new groups of contacts, new > > groups of tasks, and new calendar in Evolution 2.0. > > > > Currently, all of these things are configured using wizards. This > > approach is inappropriate, because in most cases there is very little > > information required to add a new group -- so that adding one using a > > wizard takes significantly more time (and mouse clicks) than is > > necessary. > > > > I propose that replace these wizards with a set of simple dialogs. > > As I sat down to implement this I noticed this change may end up causing > us problems in the future. With the druid based approach if a new > evolution-data-server backend is added then we'd simply need to add the > new source type to the type selector on the first druid page and replace > the subsequent druid pages with controls the backend provided. With the > new plan of simple dialogs I don't see how we could add new types in the > future if the options they need don't match the options of the current > sources exactly.
hm, right - unless we dynamically add pages to the dialog depending on the source type, which is kind of a gross idea. we have a bounty for a contact db backend. what sort of information would we need for that? db server hostname, port, database name, user password? Assuming of course the schemas are hardcoded. Chris _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
