The Calendar, Memos and Tasks views use to do D-Bus calls to
the backends on the main (UI) thread, which could result in UI
freezes, until the operation was done on the backend (and server)
side. This commit fixes that by invoking the operations in
a dedicated thread. It has few additional advantages too:
- operations can be cancelled
- proper error reporting to a user
- less code duplication between the views for common operations
There had been fixed some performance issues when selecting/unselecting
sources in the source selector as well.
Replace ETableSortColumn with separate ETableColumnSpecification and
GtkSortType parameters in the "get_nth" and "set_nth" functions.
Makes some other parts of the code simpler since it no longer has to
translate a column number to a column specification.
Evolution consists of entirely too many small utility libraries, which
increases linking and loading time, places a burden on higher layers of
the application (e.g. modules) which has to remember to link to all the
small in-tree utility libraries, and makes it difficult to generate API
documentation for these utility libraries in one Gtk-Doc module.
Merge the following utility libraries under the umbrella of libeutil,
and enforce a single-include policy on libeutil so we can reorganize
the files as desired without disrupting its pseudo-public API.
libemail-utils/libemail-utils.la
libevolution-utils/libevolution-utils.la
filter/libfilter.la
widgets/e-timezone-dialog/libetimezonedialog.la
widgets/menus/libmenus.la
widgets/misc/libemiscwidgets.la
widgets/table/libetable.la
widgets/text/libetext.la
This also merges libedataserverui from the Evolution-Data-Server module,
since Evolution is its only consumer nowadays, and I'd like to make some
improvements to those APIs without concern for backward-compatibility.
And finally, start a Gtk-Doc module for libeutil. It's going to be a
project just getting all the symbols _listed_ much less _documented_.
But the skeletal structure is in place and I'm off to a good start.
