[Evolution-hackers] Rethinking account management

2010-11-10 Thread Matthew Barnes
As part of our transition from GConf to GSettings, which Rodrigo Moya has graciously been helping with, I've put some thought into addressing the XML string lists which we currently store in GConf under accounts and sources keys. We've known for years that this is a really bad approach, and I

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Rethinking account management

2010-11-10 Thread Matthew Barnes
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 09:16 +1300, Andrew McMillan wrote: Does this mean (for example) that we will be able to have a caldav server, with credentials, and then just associate (and maybe auto-discover) all of the user's addressbooks, calendars, todo-lists and journals which the user has on that

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Rethinking account management

2010-11-10 Thread Milan Crha
On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 11:39 -0500, Matthew Barnes wrote: Here's a few built-in top-level stub sources as trivial examples. They don't do anything other than name a backend. They would appear as bold group names in a source selector widget. 1. Filename/UID: on-this-computer