[Evolution-hackers] initial NNTP patch

[Meilof]

Hello,

Just to get some review before I hear the _whole_ patch is messed up, I 
proudly annouce this initial NNTP patch for Evolution:

  http://home.wanadoo.nl/meilof/evolution-nntp-patch-04

It does subscribing/unsubscribing and caching of the newsgroup list, and 
it sorts the newsgroup list too. Please let me know whether I'm on the 
right track.

Also, couple of issues:

    * Loading a complete newsgroup list still takes a considerable
      amount of time, largely due to the sorting I have implemented. If
      you want to subscribe to the z.z.z newsgroup, this means you have
      to wait quite some time. I propose that if you click on the "z"
      folder of the "z.z.z" newsgroup, it will get updated directly
      rather than after all previous folders, so that if you know what
      you want to find, you can subscribe/unsubscribe easily.
    * I think it would be kind of nice to have short folder names, like
      "a.b.mp3" for alt.binaries.mp3. I did implement this functionality
      in the NNTP store (a configuration setting of the newsgroup), but
      this is obviously something that should be handled by the mailer
      rather than the NNTP backend.
    * The bounty description mentions the store summary having a "flat"
      and "tree" mode. I just did a s/IMAP/NNTP of the
      imap-store-summary, which seems to work currently, but this is
      probably not what you indended. Can you tell me in concrete where
      these flat and tree modes would be used withing Evo, and what kind
      of functions need to be written to support that?
    * For offline operation, would it be a good idea to subclass the
      CamelDiscoSummary?

I think that was pretty much it. The patch seems to work for me, and 
I'll go over to subscribing to groups first now I think. I have posted 
some screenshots (never mind the desktop environment I was running... :S) on

   http://home.wanadoo.nl/meilof/



Meilof
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