Re: [Evolution-hackers] Backend requesting arbitrary user input from frontend

[Christian Hilberg]

Hi Milan,

On Wed 30 March 2011 Milan Crha wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 19:04 +0100, Christian Hilberg wrote:
> > Of course, this is going to be fun - how to tell which of the possibly
> > multiple EDS-frontends should receive the request? Ideally, the backends
> > should be unaware of EDS-frontends... trouble galore! :)
> 
>   Hi,
> Matt suggested in his Account management that the server will ask for
> credentials with an information for which "source" this request is made,
> so the "auth_required" signal may contain this information. I'll add a
> strv parameter to that, just for being ready even for more expansion.
> 
> What kind of information will be known in this parameter depends on the
> receiver for the signal. Let's have it opened for now, but I believe
> this may cover your issue too.

As long as there is *any* sensible way to pass some data (a PIN string in our 
case) to the backend if the backend so requests, that will help us much. 
Thanks in advance for taking this into account.

(Bye)^2,
Christian

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Re: [Evolution-hackers] Rethinking account management

[Matthew Barnes]

On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 07:49 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> should it delete them too? I've a feeling there is no need for it,
> especially when you want to have them as three separate independent
> objects. But that's just a feeling.

As long as Evolution treats account/identity/transport triplets as a
single unit, I think they should be created and destroyed together.

If and when Evolution allows you to define identities and transports
independently of accounts, then we should reconsider like you said.


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