For express mode:
- Move the search bar up to the toolbar.
- Hide the "filter" combo box and lock down the first item.
- Hide the "scope" combo box and lock down the first item.
(This is the combo box with "Current Folder" only in the mailer.)
- EShellView owns the search bar widget now instead of EShellContent.
- Insert several nasty hacks that will likely come back to bite me.
Introduce e_extensible_list_extensions(), which provides extensible
objects access to their own extensions, or a subset of them.
Convert EShellBackend to an abstract EExtension subtype. EShell will
load its extensions with e_extensible_load_extensions(), and then obtain
a list of EShellBackend extensions as follows:
shell_backends = e_extensible_list_extensions (
E_EXTENSIBLE (shell), E_TYPE_SHELL_BACKEND);
Because EShellBackend is abstract, its GType is skipped while traversing
the GType hierarchy to find EShell extensions.
The mechanism here is simple but hard to explain without leaning heavily
on object-oriented jargon. Consider this a rough draft. Illustrations
would certainly help clarify.
Replace the EVO_EXPRESS environment variable with an --express command
line option. (Note, this adds a new translatable string for --help.)
Add an EUIManager class with an "express-mode" property and custom load
functions that use our new "express" preprocessor. This replaces the UI
manager functions in e-utils.c.
(Also going to see if I can get GTK+ to add an "add_ui_from_string"
method to GtkUIManagerClass that we can override. Then we could just
call gtk_ui_manager_add_ui_from_string() and the preprocessor would
automatically do its thing and chain up.)
Add an "express-mode" read-only GObject property to EShell.
Add e_shell_configure_ui_manager() to e-shell-utils.c. For now this
just creates a one-way property binding:
EShell:express-mode -> EUIManager:express-mode
Call this immediately after e_ui_manager_new(). (EUIManager can't do
this itself because it lives too low in the dependency hierarchy and
doesn't know about EShell.)
The signal uses the name of the newly created shell view as the detail,
so for example "shell-view-created::mail" is emitted when the "mail"
view is created.
Also, add e_shell_window_peek_shell_view() to obtain a shell view if it
exists but without instantiating it.
Using these new tools, teach the templates plugin to wait for the user
to switch to the "mail" view before connecting to its "update-actions"
signal. Previously is was instantiating the "mail" view itself.
Move the search interface to a new widget: EShellSearchbar
The current search rule is now stored in EShellView, and the search
context in EShellViewClass similar to GalViewCollection (since it's
class-specific, not instance-specific).
Also add a couple new signals to EShellView: "clear-search" and
"custom-search" ("custom" refers to an advanced search or a saved
search -- something more complex than a quick search).
Still working out a few kinks. The search entry is clearly trying to
be too many things. We need a different way of indicating that you're
looking at search results. Perhaps a search results banner similar to
Nautilus.
This tells EShell where to look for EModules. Best practice is to
define the directory in your CPPFLAGS and then pass it to EShell at
instantiation time, like so:
Makefile.am:
evolution_CPPFLAGS = \
-DMODULEDIR=\""$(moduledir)"\"
...
main.c:
shell = g_object_new (
E_TYPE_SHELL, "module-directory", MODULEDIR, ...);
So Anjal can override what it needs to for its own purpose.
Also makes the EShellWindow design a little cleaner.
Methods added:
GtkWidget * (*construct_menubar) (EShellWindow *shell_window);
GtkWidget * (*construct_toolbar) (EShellWindow *shell_window);
GtkWidget * (*construct_sidebar) (EShellWindow *shell_window);
GtkWidget * (*construct_content) (EShellWindow *shell_window);
GtkWidget * (*construct_taskbar) (EShellWindow *shell_window);
EShellView * (*create_shell_view) (EShellWindow *shell_window,
const gchar *view_name);
Also added some new GObject properties to help decouple actions from
internal EShellWindow widgets created by these methods:
EShellWindow:sidebar-visible
EShellWindow:switcher-visible
EShellWindow:taskbar-visible
EShellWindow:toolbar-visible
This introduces e-shell-utils for miscellaneous utility functions
that integrate with the shell or shell settings. First function
is e_shell_run_save_dialog(), which automatically remembers the
selected folder in the file chooser dialog.
Also, kill some redundant save dialog functions, as well as some
write-this-string-to-disk functions that block.
This addresses bug #593896 but is also a cleaner design than before.
It introduces an EShellView::execute-search signal and renames the
"search-execute" action to "search-quick" to clarify that it's only
meant for the "quick" search bar in the main window.
Shell view subclasses should implement the execute_search() method to
actually execute a search.
e_shell_view_execute_search() emits the new signal.
Define a new shell module method named start() that tells the module when to
start loading data and running background tasks. Only really applies to the
mail module right now since the others use evolution-data-server. Basically
it prevents the mail module from loading and refreshing mail stores until
you actually switch to the mail view.
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Use EBindings instead of a notify callback to keep other widgets and
actions synchronized with EShell:online. Cleaner and less error prone.
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- Kill the e-util-labels API and read label information into a
single-column GtkListStore. Use GConfBridge to automatically
keep GConf synched with the list store.
- The list store (a singleton instance) is stored in EShellSettings
so it's available everywhere.
- The list store serves as the model for EMailLabelTreeView,
which itself is embedded in EMailLabelManager; a complete
label management UI as seen in the preferences dialog.
- EMailLabelDialog is used to add or edit a label. Avoid using a
color button, instead embed a GtkColorSelection directly in the
dialog so everything is in one window.
Open issues:
- The weird toggle/color/text menu items in the popup menu aren't
there. For now they're just regular toggle items. I'll deal
with it later.
- Filter intergration is broken at the moment.
svn path=/branches/kill-bonobo/; revision=37233
