[haiku-development] Re: Working on Caya and Mail app for GSoC

  • From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:14:51 +0200

Le 29 mars 2011 à 16:44, Barrett a écrit :

> Hi, sorry for delay
> 
>> It seems an interesting feature, maybe an addon API is an overmuch, would
>> be
>>> better to leave to the apps this task? (by providing the needed
>>> class/methods)
>> 
>> Yes, I considered this. I was mainly thinking of cases where no
>> dedicated app would exist eg. gmail. It would be nice to have the
>> ability to open a 'sync' panel in the preflet and press 'sync contacts
>> with gmail' or 'sync contacts with all external sources'.
> 
> 
> It's a motivation more than reasonable to make a little addon API.

I'd rather try to avoid the "each app handles its own sync" thingy...
It'd be much cleaner and user friendly to have a synchronization server or 
whatever handling all this, possibly with plugins.

François.

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