On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 14:10, Dan Winship wrote:
> >> seconded. Calendar, Tasklist, Summary is not used here. Why are they
> >> loaded?
> >
> > I rarely use these, but a coworker uses them (same box, two different X
> > servers). Why not demand-load them, so one doesn't take the startup hit
> > until one tries to use them?
>
> Because then everyone would complain that it took too long for the
> calendar to pop up the first time you clicked on it. :-)
I think if you choose _not_ to start the calendar, then there shouldn't
even be a button 'calendar' to click on in the first place...
>
> Another reason which no one has mentioned yet is that the shell doesn't
> know all of the folders that will exist. For instance, if you flip the
> examples around and don't start up the mail component until the user
> clicks on a mail folder, then you wouldn't have any IMAP folders until
> you clicked on a local mail folder first, which would be annoying.
> (Likewise for LDAP folders and local contacts.)
>
What would would be nice is something like this:
$ evolution --help
--no-calendar Start evo w/out calendar
--no-summary ...
I guess this would essentially make it a mail-client, nothing more,
so there shouldn't even be icons for the calendar/summary/tasks/etc...
I guess if these are given at startup, you can enable/disable a lot
of things... Correct me if I'm wrong here, I'm not much of a
programmer...
You must realise that a lot of people _will_ just use it as a
mail-client, so it would be a *really* nice feat.
I'm running it like that now, and I really like it like that... load
times are *much* better (closing times too, duh!)...
Well, I think it's just something to consider, I guess a lot of people
would like such a lightweight feature-full mailclient like evolution...
People would even be able to use it on *very* low-end machines, I
guess...
> I know Ettore was thinking recently about making component startup be
> delayed though. One way this could work would be for the shell (or
> actually, the wombat) to keep track of the complete folder tree between
> sessions. This could be nice for other reasons too.
>
> -- Dan
ThanX,
Frederic
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