Re: Evolution-Data-Server

[Keith Sharp <kms passback co uk>]

On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 13:17 -0400, David Malcolm wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 08:35 +0200, Roger Grosswiler wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > just saw, that evolution-data-server is shipped with fc3. i just found something on internet, that it is for
> > centralisation of adressbook and calendar. Does somebody have something more detailled?
> 
> evolution-data-server is the bit of Evolution that handles calendars,
> tasks and contacts, which has been split out into a separate package so
> that other programs can access and manipulate the data.
> 
> AFAIK there aren't any other packages in Fedora using this, though
> there's a patch for gnome-panel to make your appointments and tasks
> appear in the Panel's calendar; this would add a dependency on e-d-s to
> gnome-panel.  The current Fedora gnome-panel packages don't use this
> AFAIK.

This feature is now included in the gnome-panel/applets/clock/ source.
The configure script automatically detects the presence of evolution-
data-server, and if found builds the clock applet with support.  You can
override this and disable the use of e-d-s at build time.

The latest gnome-panel RPM (2.6.0-10) from Rawhide appears to leave this
to be detected at build time by not explicitly disabling this feature,
ie if the build host has e-d-s installed then you will get support
built.

Keith.