[Evolution-hackers] EDS architecture
Hello, I am interested in using EDS in my own projects. I looked for any docs that would be useful to learn EDS architecture, but only found API reference, which is not so helpful. I'd like to build a big picture of how EDS works. Can anybody point me to proper document? I also have two more specific questions. Firstly, is there any kind of software that can be used to synchronize data from EDS using opensync framework, without actually using Evolution? I'd like to use it in an embedded environment (OpenMoko Freerunner). I know that there is 'sync' from pimlico-project, but the webpage says it is in a very early state. Secondly, I'd like to add to EDS content my own fields. Looking at the API reference I see functions to get list of allowed fields (like e_book_get_supported_fields), but I guess the server has to implement them to be working properly? I'd like to add things like XMPP ID or private notes to contacts, or GPS location or adding more detailed categories for events. Thanks in advance, Tomasz Melcer ___ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
[Evolution-hackers] Instant Messaging information on Evolution Contacts
I'm implementing synchronization with google contacts for instant messaging information on conduit. While implementing, i noticed that evolution does not have entries for some IM's like google talk and skype. First I thought on implementing some kind of transalation(for google talk is easier, because it's jabber anyway... ), but, for things like skype, for example, it's a problem, so now I think it's better if a try to create it on evolution(create a patch for evo). But, I would like to hear from an evo developer what's better in this case. Thanks in advance -- Regards Fabio Rafael da Rosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
Re: [Evolution-hackers] Evolution: Taking forward...
I remember sending an Evolution copyright assignment to Ximian. Just in case you also need my permission, but could not reach me via old email [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I agree to the re-licensing of any Evolution code I have written. Would be nice if you changed the email, or, if you are not aware of any code left, just remove me from contributors. ___ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
Re: [Evolution-hackers] Removing libical fork, moving to new upstream?
I have applied Chenthill's memory management patches (only to the 'libical' directory and to the examples -- still have to do the 'libicalcap' and 'libicalss' directories) using function names ending in "_r". IMHO, HANDLE_LIBICAL_MEMORY can be removed. Ok folks, it's done ... The remaining portions of libical (libicalcap and libicalss) have been converted to the "_r" API. (The test suite still uses the old API and will continue to do so for a while.) Now is the time for Evolution code to be updated to use the new calling syntax. Is there anything we can do to facilitate this, or should we just hang out and wait for you folks to kick the tires on the new library? Let me know... -- Art ___ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
Re: [Evolution-hackers] Configuration masquerading Data
Martin Owens schrieb:
Dear Felix,
Ahhh wait! It's nice you separated data and configuration, but to be
honest: I really don't want my home directory to be flooded with data I
don't even want do see outside the application!
Calm down dear, it's only a discussion.
I am calm =) Sorry if it looked like I'm agitated or something ^^
Now I think your idea is not bad at all, because we have a quite nice
folder structure already (Documents, Pictures, Videos and so on). But
they must be used! Correct me if I'm wrong, but FSpot makes its own
directory ("/home/foo/Photos") for the pictures you want to "copy to
picture location" (you can select this option when importing pictures to
fspot).
I still see some issues (like a unified way to save emails, not that if
I first use Thunderbird my emails are stored like "foo.mail" and with
Evolution they are stored like "080916_foo.evomail" or similar) but
issues are here to resolve and as you pointed out already: this is a
discussion, so lets discuss :)
Martin, are you familiar with Cosimo Cecchi's Summer of Code project?
(http://code.google.com/soc/2008/gnome/appinfo.html?csaid=15C2B5BC19A9276A)
Probably a integration of his media manager into nautilus would solve
some of your problems?
cheers
felix
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Re: [Evolution-hackers] Configuration masquerading Data
Examples: - Pidgin * Configuration - Settings for which services to connect to, what skins to use and what plugins to use. * Data - Text entered at the keyboard, text received over the service, files received or sent over the service, chat logs. - Gnome Background Settings * Configuration - which background is selected, which backgrounds are available, how a background is to be presented. * Data - Background image files - Evolution Email Application * Configuration - which services to connect to, which plugins to use, syncing rates, display preferences. * Data - Email messages recieved, contact data, calendar event, note text, text typed in, files sent as attachments. Ahhh wait! It's nice you separated data and configuration, but to be honest: I really don't want my home directory to be flooded with data I don't even want do see outside the application! I don't want to have a folder "background images" in my home where the background images are, I don't want to have a "evolution emails" folder where I can get to my emails without opening Evolution itself! I don't think I'm alone with this thought...think of all the "non-power-user", for them it would be a tsunami of data they cannot handle... The idea is nice, but not for every program! Why should I want to access the emails directly? I can use Evolution for that, its nicer and a lot more user friendly then the file explorer is! I think this is a big step in the wrong direction, you would like to use the email application just to make the connection and download the mails! That reminds me of the old telnet email clients - my uncle still uses one of them, because he's familiar with that - but we have really powerful applications now, we should use them! What I'm asking is, at which point do you think the line between application data and user data needs to be drawn, or do you think that a best practice approach might incorporate the idea that if your application stores information that is useful to another application, it should be stored in a non-configuration location? There is a further separation at the configuration level which must be accounted for. Sercive configuration often involves standard protocols which multiple different apps for different reasons could use the same configurations for. This isn't to be confused with user data though. A directory for ~/.services/email/accounts.xml would be a way of standardising the service/protocol level configuration. User data though needs to be stored in ways which users have control over directly. The cheese project recognised that keeping photos out of the home directory browsing space was a bug and that hiding user data is not a desirable quality when you want flexibility and user control. The fact that other applications could use this data is a useful side effect too. For instance using XSD directories cheese has allowed F-Spot to be made to import photos from the XDS directory, grabbing cheese photos and then allowing the user to export them to flikr or what ever the user wants. This provides a level of context to a users data and power to the user. The XSD directories idea is a very powerful one which should be considered for more user data than it is currently. Another aspect is making sure that each elemental datum has a standard format which we can use to allow the user control of. For instance an image can be saved as a png file, An email message can be saved as an eml/message file and a bookmark can be saved as a link file. but not all of the available formats have been agreed upon, standardised or even meet all of the feature requirements of the applications involved. For instance vcards are nice, but I can't see EDS using them as a data store since it's not a very normalised format. I should also make a note that just because the data is stored in files in some of these examples doesn't mean you are forced to forgo the use of an index. The mechanism of recording your email messages in a sqlight db file which may or may not be specific to the application is not in question. Let me know if I've managed to explain my ideas on how we can differentiate user data from configuration data. I'd be interested in cases which break my logic. Best Regards, Martin Owens ___ Cheese-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/cheese-list ___ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
Re: [Evolution-hackers] Importing contact from winME devices
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 09:59 +1200, Zainul Franciscus wrote: > This is pretty straight forward. The only thing I have not figured out > is how to generate a UID for the vcard. Does anyone know what is the > algorithm that evolution mail to generate the UID ? Or even better is > there an API that I can use to generate the UID ? As long as it is unique, it doesn't matter. EDS generates a unique number from a number of sources, but using a UUID would be fairly easy and ensure that it is unique. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://burtonini.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
Re: [Evolution-hackers] [opensuse-gnome] Evolution 2.22 for Factory
HPJ, > > HPJ, the summary can't be named like this, since, its possible that > > something like this already exists. .ibex.index has a traditional > > meaning and would be more of abusing it in the newer versions. > > Wouldn't it be possible to use a different directory, e.g. > "mail/local-index/folders.db"? That would avoid both problems. You end up seeing a new folder local-index in 2.22/older and a folders.db folder under it. :( FWIW, I did give it a try, during the initial phases, but I abandoned it, since I was short of time. -Srini. ___ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
[Evolution-hackers] evolution crashes when using libmapi
Hi everyone. I compiled the 710 openchange and evolution and evolution-data-server with exchange-mapi support. However, after I configured the exchange mapi account, evolution crash. Here is the trace under ubuntu. (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/bin/evolution [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 0xb666ba70 (LWP 30103)] Loading Exchange MAPI Plugin listener is constructed ** (evolution:30103): DEBUG: mailto URL command: evolution --component=mail %s ** (evolution:30103): DEBUG: mailto URL program: evolution [New Thread 0xb503fb90 (LWP 30107)] [Thread 0xb503fb90 (LWP 30107) exited] [New Thread 0xb483eb90 (LWP 30108)] [Thread 0xb483eb90 (LWP 30108) exited] store_db_path /home/liushuai/.evolution/mail/local/folders.db folders table succesfully created [New Thread 0xb483eb90 (LWP 30109)] store_db_path /home/liushuai/.evolution/mail/imap/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/folders.db folders table succesfully created [New Thread 0xb503fb90 (LWP 30110)] [Thread 0xb503fb90 (LWP 30110) exited] [New Thread 0xb503fb90 (LWP 30111)] store_db_path /home/liushuai/.evolution/mail/mapi/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/folders.db folders table succesfully created store_db_path /home/liushuai/.evolution/mail/vfolder/folders.db folders table succesfully created [New Thread 0xb356eb90 (LWP 30113)] [New Thread 0xb3d6fb90 (LWP 30112)] [Thread 0xb3d6fb90 (LWP 30112) exited] [Thread 0xb356eb90 (LWP 30113) exited] [New Thread 0xb356eb90 (LWP 30117)] [New Thread 0xb3d6fb90 (LWP 30118)] (evolution:30103): camel-imap-provider-WARNING **: Unable to load summary no such table: Apple Mail To Do e-data-server-ui-Message: Key file does not have group 'Passwords-ExchangeMAPI' [Thread 0xb356eb90 (LWP 30117) exited] libexchangemapi-Message: exchange-mapi-connection.c(128): exchange_mapi_connection_new: lock(connect_lock) exchange-mapi-connection.c(73): Entering mapi_profile_load Loading profile [EMAIL PROTECTED] exchange-mapi-connection.c(114): Leaving mapi_profile_load libexchangemapi-Message: exchange-mapi-connection.c(131): exchange_mapi_connection_new: unlock(connect_lock) libexchangemapi-Message: exchange-mapi-connection.c(136): exchange_mapi_connection_new: Connected exchange-mapi-connection.c(2525): Entering exchange_mapi_get_folders_list libexchangemapi-Message: exchange-mapi-connection.c(2527): exchange_mapi_get_folders_list: lock(connect_lock) |---+ : (Container class: IPF.StickyNote 6B1F0001) UnRead : 0 Total : 0 ?? |---+ : (Container class: IPF.Note 691F0001) UnRead : 0 Total : 1 ??? |---+ : (Container class: IPF.Note 4E21) UnRead : 0 Total : 1 |---+ : (Container class: IPF.Note 1F2B0001) UnRead : 0 Total : 0 ??? |---+ : (Container class: IPF.Contact 681F0001) UnRead : 0 Total : 2 ?? |---+ : (Container class: IPF.Task 6C1F0001) UnRead : 0 Total : 1 ?? |---+ : (Container class: IPF.Journal 6A1F0001) UnRead : 0 Total : 0 ?? |---+ : (Container class: IPF.Appointment 671F0001) UnRead : 0 Total : 25 ??? |---+ : (Container class: IPF.Note 4D21) UnRead : 0 Total : 5 ? |---+ : (Container class: IPF.Note 4F21) UnRead : 0 Total : 0 ? |---+ : (Container class: IPF.Note 5021) UnRead : 0 Total : 0 libexchangemapi-Message: exchange-mapi-connection.c(2594): exchange_mapi_get_folders_list: unlock(connect_lock) exchange-mapi-connection.c(2596): Leaving exchange_mapi_get_folders_list exchange-mapi-connection.c(2611): Entering exchange_mapi_get_pf_folders_list libexchangemapi-Message: exchange-mapi-connection.c(2613): exchange_mapi_get_pf_folders_list: lock(connect_lock) |---+ Internet Newsgroups : (Container class: IPF.Note 03000002) UnRead : 0 Total : 0 ?? |---+ test: (Container class: IPF.Note 1F270001) UnRead : 0 Total : 0 ??? |---+ test: (Container class: IPF.Contact 22270001) UnRead : 0 Total : 0 libexchangemapi-Message: exchange-mapi-connection.c(2645): exchange_mapi_get_pf_folders_list: unlock(connect_lock) exchange-mapi-connection.c(2647): Leaving exchange_mapi_get_pf_folders_list Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 0xb483eb90 (LWP 30109)] 0xb3d78c73 in mapi_build_folder_info (mapi_store=, parent_name=, folder_name=0x8f1d028 " - test1") at camel-mapi-store.c:851 851 if (!strcmp (excl_parent, "Sent Items")) (gdb) bt #0 0xb3d78c73 in mapi_build_folder_info (mapi_store=, parent_name=, folder_name=0x8f1d028 " - test1") at camel-mapi-store.c:851 #1 0xb3d7a0e7 in mapi_get_folder_info (store=0x8c79328, top=0xb3d7cd2f "", flags=7, ex=0x8ef261c) at camel-mapi-store.c:908 #2 0xb7ddc762 in camel_store_get_folder_info (store=0x8c79328, top=0x0, flags=7, ex=0x8ef261c) at camel-store.c:851 #3 0xb60eec4c in get_folderinfo_exec (m=0x8ef2608)
