application integration standard proposal

[Luke Schierer]

On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 03:31:52PM -0500, Richard Laager wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 21:40 +0200, Olivier Sessink wrote:
> > An example: "The end user is using a IM client, where the he's notified 
> > in the chat window that a new email arrived from the same person he's 
> > chatting to (even if the IM account is different from the email 
> > account). The user may right click this buddy in the IM client, and in 
> > the context menu it says you have unread mail from this person, and the 
> > context menu will allow you to email this user (open a compose window)"
> 
> I haven't read the draft standard, but I don't think there's anything
> wrong with this. You might want to talk to Gary about Guifications 3 and
> how that might be usable as a notification framework for all of this.
> Evolution already provides an address book, so the only other thing that
> would be required is potentially improvements on the Evolution <->
> Pidgin integration.
> 
> Richard

Our gevolution plugin has some long standing issues associated with it.
It is typically on my radar as a low level annoyance.  

luke