Re: [Evolution-hackers] Create task based on email

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

creating tasks is one thing, creating links would be much much more difficult, as there is no remote abstraction for it at either end.

On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 11:30 +0000, DANIELLLANO wrote:
> Celso Pinto wrote:
> > I really need a feature on Evolution that allows me to create a new task
> > based on the contents of an email. 
> > It should work like this: I receive an email, right-click with mouse on
> > it, choose Create task and the "New task" Dialog pops up with the
> > contents of the email on it's description field (only text). 
> > One other way, yet harder, would be to implement some kind of "symlink"
> > between a task and an email.
> > 
> > Because I want this available, I'm more than willing to do some coding,
> > but I'm having some trouble finding out where to start, so I have some
> > questions:
> > 1) where can I find the "Task" struct?
> > 2) how do I create a new task dialog? Should I signal some kind of
> > Evolution service saying "i'd like to create a new task dialog and
> > here's the contents" or can I execute some function that popup's up the
> > New task-dialog?
> > 3) Where can I find documentation about how the different pieces of
> > evolution are put together, if there is one. Any UML?
> > 
> > I'd really appreciate it if anyone can help me with these questions.
>
> I'm looking for something similar to this.
>
> When I send an email (I start a thread or topic) I want evolution to keep
> me informed to changes of that thread of tell me something if there's no
> response in a period of time.
>
> So, maybe what we need is some kind of tracker that can link emails with
> tasks and the calendar.
>
>
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