Re: [Evolution-hackers] Rethinking account management

2011-03-29 Thread Matthew Barnes
In last week's IRC meeting I promised more details about the file format I'm designing for mail accounts. I like the way Thunderbird splits accounts, identities and transports into orthogonal concepts. Each account has a default identity and transport, but then you can go back and define

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Rethinking account management

2011-03-29 Thread Milan Crha
On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 09:26 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: The hierarchy just ensures that deleting the mail account from the ESource registry will also take out the default identity and transport for that account. Hi, should it delete them too? I've a feeling there is no need for it,

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Backend requesting arbitrary user input from frontend

2011-03-29 Thread Milan Crha
On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 19:04 +0100, Christian Hilberg wrote: Of course, this is going to be fun - how to tell which of the possibly multiple EDS-frontends should receive the request? Ideally, the backends should be unaware of EDS-frontends... trouble galore! :) Hi, Matt suggested in