On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 08:39 +0530, Johnny Jacob wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 14:19 +0200, Julien Kerihuel wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 13:56 +0200, Maxim Burgerhout wrote: > > > I would rather have Evolution present these Public Folders only on > > > demand or on some sort of subscription basis. Outlook seems to do > > > this. When I start Outlook, I am not presented a whole lot of Public > > > Folders by default, but I can opt-in to some of them if I want to. > > > Maybe Evolution can do the same? Does the current Evolution / libmapi > > > framework allow for a solution like this? > > > > Hi Maxim, > > > > libmapi allows and implements this behavior. We provide a call to "open > > public folders" only (OpenPublicFolder), then if you want to list the > > folders and its hierarchy, you need to go through a set of calls. This > > behavior is implemented when you run openchangeclient --pf --mailbox and > > I think this may be the behavior evolution implements by default. > > > > So this is something which needs to be modified on evolution side. > > > > > I can see there are > > > 'subscribe to other user's folder' and 'permissions' options, but > > > neither seems to do anything. > > > > libmapi implements permissions (add/remove/delete), but does not provide > > yet a convenient way to subscribe/access other user's folders. This is > > an improvement which should be available once I've merged and updated > > the multisession patch in trunk. > > > > I don't think the evo-mapi team yet had the time to implement the GUI > > for this - up to them to provide further information about this ;-) > > > Currently working on this. Once this is done, you will be able to > subscribe to folders from Folder-> Subscriptions
So now we don't show the 'All Public Folders' list. Instead you have to subscribe to folders from Folder-> Subscriptions. Limitation (Bug) : Outlook's favourite folder list and evolution's favourite folder list does not sync. UI Bug : 'Favourite' is always displayed. Will fix these later. -- Johnny Jacob [http://johnnyjacob.org] _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.openchange.org/listinfo/devel
