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.
This demonstrates how to extend EShell without having to modify and
recompile e-shell.c. If NetworkManager integration is enabled, the
extension is loaded automatically when the EShell is created.
The same pattern can be applied to integrate other network monitoring
software like ConnMan or Microsoft's Wireless Zero Configuration.
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.
This demonstrates how to extend EShell without having to modify and
recompile e-shell.c. If NetworkManager integration is enabled, the
extension is loaded automatically when the EShell is created.
The same pattern can be applied to integrate other network monitoring
software like ConnMan or Microsoft's Wireless Zero Configuration.
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.)
Added em_account_editor_get_widget, and cleaned up the widget listing.
Cleaned the startup wizard code to find it's label by name
Added disabling of power-user 'indentity' frame in the first page express capplet.
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.
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.
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.
Matthew Barnes