Well, i mean you can do 'mkdir -p' using code. You should definitely do that. Adding the .sbd thing isn't hard either, there should be code in camel/providers/local/camel-mbox-store.c which does it, I think, or somewhere in that directory.> What sort of directory structure? well, the same as one got in ~/evolution/local/ starting with the mbox, Inbox, and if it got subfolders they're under Inbox.sbd etc. eh you know :) > Well you can do all this in code easily, without running any system > commands. Really? were would i look to see examples of that/those functions?! i grep:ed for ".sbd" but didnt get anything worthy out of it.
Hmm, i'd still prefer cpio. They can be accessed better using code/scripts. For example, your screenshots use 'tar j...', j is only a very new option to tar, and isn't very portable. But i guess its only details.> I'd probably suggest generating a cpio archive of this structure, then > you compress that in one go. You get better compression, and you get > a file that can be manipulated using existing tools. cpio works a bit > better with pipes and so on than tar might, and tar is possibly less > portable across different platforms. Okey, well to be honest have i never used cpio. so at the Moment i think ill look for a tar sollution, but i figgured, since at the moment im thinking about doing this with a system() thing, one could do an execution of a custom string.
It would make sense to have a separate configuration page in the mailer preferences, rather than a run-time configuration with multiple popups. You shouldn't really be firing off 'preferences' windows from a running dialogue.Like this : http://smurfnet.homelinux.net/files/evo/scr.png http://smurfnet.homelinux.net/files/evo/scr1.png http://smurfnet.homelinux.net/files/evo/scr2.png http://smurfnet.homelinux.net/files/evo/scr3.png (um yeah, the middle button is "preferences") im not to good with the gui stuff so any suggestions/pointers is always welcomed. :)
If you want to do a multi-step thing like that, it should probably be a wizard - e.g. if you wanted to be able to select different backup formats, compression options, etc.
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