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.
EShellView no longer needs help from subclasses other than getting
the needed GalView subclasses registered.
A nice side-effect of this is EShellView subclasses can now use the
G_DEFINE_DYNAMIC_TYPE macro.
Collect all the "config" extensions from the "addressbook", "calendar",
and "mail" modules into one place. These extensions typically just bind
GObject properties of extensible classes to app-specific GSettings keys.
Make ECalendarItem, ECalendarView, ECalModel, EDateEdit, EMeetingStore,
and EMeetingTimeSelector extensible and register extensions to
automatically bind every instance to the appropriate EShellSettings.
- Require all EPlugin and EPluginHook subtypes be registered before
loading plugins. This drastically simplifies the EPlugin/EPluginHook
negotiation.
- Turn most EPluginHook subtypes into GTypeModules and register their
types from an e_module_load() function (does not include shell hooks).
- Convert EPluginLib and the Mono and Python bindings to GTypeModules
and register their types from an e_module_load() function, and kill
EPluginTypeHook.
- Collect all shell modules into a new top-level 'modules' directory:
$(top_srcdir)/modules/addressbook
$(top_srcdir)/modules/calendar
$(top_srcdir)/modules/mail
Nothing is allowed to link to these, not plugins nor other modules.
THIS SOLVES BUG #571275 AND OPENS THE DOOR TO PORTING TO MAC OS X.
- Mimic the libevolution-mail-shared library from master (except drop
the "shared" suffix) and have libevolution-mail-importers and all
mail-related plugins link to it.
- Discard the a11y subdirectories and have the files live alongside
their counterpart widgets.