EShellSettings predates GSettings and is no longer necessary.
GSettings allows binding GObject properties to GSettings keys,
with optional mapping functions. That fulfills the purpose of
EShellSettings.
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.
I pushed a few EShell features up to GtkApplication for GTK+ 3.2,
so we can now trim off the redundancies in EShell.
1) GtkApplication has a new "window-added" signal which replaces
EShell's own "window-created" signal.
2) GtkApplication has a new "window-removed" signal which replaces
EShell's own "window-destroyed" signal.
3) gtk_application_get_windows() now returns a list of windows sorted
by most recently focused, replacing e_shell_get_watched_windows().
4) GtkApplication now provides enough hooks to subclasses that we can
remove e_shell_watch_window() and call gtk_application_add_window()
directly.
An easy way to broadcast application-wide alerts to shell windows.
These alerts will persist in all current and future shell windows
until responded to (either programmatically or by the user).
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.)
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, ...);
Add method pointers to EShellClass for all the EShell signals.
Also rework my previous --quit corner case workaround: we'll want to do
the full shutdown procedure after all, since the backends have already
spun up.
This -asks- an existing Evolution process to quit. It is equivalent to
selecting File->Quit in the main window. It does not kill the process.
My plan is to use this as part of a new --force-shutdown implementation.
The contact and contact-list editors now demonstrate this part of the
shutdown protocol. They listen for the "quit-requested" signal from the
shell and prompt to save changes, discard changes or cancel. If the user
cancels, the editor calls e_shell_cancel_quit() to do just that.
Split the GTypeModule loader out of EShellModule as EModule, and rename
EShellModule to EShellBackend. Backends (formerly modules) should now
subclass EShellBackend.
This commit converts EShell but breaks all the shell backends.
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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Make EShell a subclass of UniqueApp and handle single-instance negotiation.
When another Evolution process is running:
- Running "evolution" will simply present the existing windows.
- Running "evolution -c <view>" will open a shell window set to <view>.
- Running "evolution <uri>" will open an appropriate window for <uri>.
The second process will then terminate immediately.
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- Implement offline preparation as an EActivity that gets broadcast in
a signal to shell modules. Offline preparations are complete when the
last EActivity reference is dropped.
- Bind some of the composer preferences to EShellSettings properties.
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- Tighter integration of GalViewInstance and EShellView.
- EBinding. Stolen from ExoBinding. Lets you bind GObject properties
together to automatically keep their values in sync. This is a godsend.
Added to e-util, but might even deserve a place in libedataserver.
- EShellSettings. This is the concept I blogged about. Already
started ripping apart em-mailer-prefs.c. Others to follow. Any
place where we're monitoring GConf keys is a target.
- Incremental progress on the calender and mailer. Got EMFolderView
somewhat working, but I think I'll be killing off EMFolderBrowser.
svn path=/branches/kill-bonobo/; revision=36795
dependencies in our libraries. The circular dependency between the composer
and the mail module is still causing me headaches. And it doesn't help that
the addressbook and calendar also want to link to the composer.
svn path=/branches/kill-bonobo/; revision=36782
