Re: [Evolution-hackers] problems integrating evolution with tomboy

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 09:41 -0400, Alex Graveley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So I've encountered the following issues when trying to support
> copy/paste and drag 'n drop linking of mails to Tomboy notes... 
>
> Inside a Tomboy note I would like to show the subject, an icon
> representing its replied-to status, and any flags or labels.  Clicking a
> linked mail should open it using the running evolution instance.  
>
> Currently I can only support showing the subject and opening, and those
> are done only with gross hacks.  To support the rest I would have to
> parse camel summaries directly.
>
> These are the main problems I see:
>
> * For email drops, there is no mapping between the x-uid-list uris and
> the uris that the mail component can open on the command line.  So I
> have to read and parse evo's gconf email account info, and manually map
> the x-uid-list uris to accounts that I find, using mail backend-specific
> uri matching.
No, you shoudln't be using that type, it is an internal type.  You should only use the uri-list or message types.

> * There is no status blob passed in drops, so I must parse the mime
> message directly to get the summary info (subject, sender, date, etc),
> and support mbox format parsing when multiple messages are dropped.  And
> this still doesn't allow me to get at information like whether the
> message has been responded-to or flagged as important.
See above.
> * No way to reference attachments.  They are just copied to a temp file.
> Not able to show an attachment in the mail message context I've seen it
> (no x-uid-list for attachments).
You have to parse the messages yourself if you want to look at the attachments.
> * No way to be notified of changes to linked mails, such as deletion,
> moving, replying, or flagging the existing email.
No idea what you're doing, but it doesn't sound like its something you can do from an external application.

> Also, it seems that none of the other components besides the mailer
> support command line URI schemes (via the handleURI component call), so
> there is no easy way for me to pop up the evolution dialogs for editing
> a task, a contact, or a calendar item.  Or to have these objects
> displayed inside their respective components in a running evolution.
>
> -Alex
>
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