Re: Evolution Plugins (Was Re: Rise of the Plugins)

["Sankar P" <psankar novell com>]

On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 10:07 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 13:48 +0530, Sankar P wrote:
> > For an IMAP user any plugin related to GroupWise, Exchange or other
> > providers makes no sense and he will be annoyed on seeing such a lengthy
> > plugins list. So except for account setup, all plugins that are specific
> > to backends were consolidated. And thus we had groupwise-features and
> > exchange-operations plugins instead of a plugin for each feature.  
> 
> Can't plugins be loaded only when an account type is used ? E.g. if and
> only if I create an Exchange account, then Evo automatically load the
> Exchange plugin - no need to select anything else.

Yup. This can be definitely done.  

I did not get enough motivation to do this as there were only two
provider specific plugins. 

But yes ideally it should have been that way only. This is the reason
behind splitting up account-setup and features plugins separately. I
will do this before next release.

> 
> 	Xav
> 
> 
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