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diff --git a/doc/devel/preface.sgml b/doc/devel/preface.sgml deleted file mode 100644 index fdaa824a8b..0000000000 --- a/doc/devel/preface.sgml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,113 +0,0 @@ - <preface id="introduction"> - <title>Introduction</title> - - <para> - This is the &Evolution; Developer's Guide or programming guide - for the &Evolution; groupware suite. If you are a programmer - and you wish to use &Evolution;'s functionality from your own - applications or if you wish to modify the &Evolution; core code, - you should read this guide. - </para> - - <para> - If you are an end-user of &Evolution; you do not need to read - this guide; please read the &Evolution; User's Guide instead. - </para> - - <para> - This guide contains the information you need to know to do the - following: - - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para> - Write applications that use &Evolution;'s data - repositories via the &Wombat; personal information server. - Examples of this would be a <application>GNOME - Panel</application> applet that displays today's - appointments, or a telephone dialer application that uses - the contents of the &Evolution; Addressbook. - </para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para> - Write applications that use the &Camel; mail library. - This includes extending &Evolution;'s own mail component - to perform additional functions. - </para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para> - Write new components for the &Evolution; Shell. Instead - of writing a stand-alone application, you can provide your - users with the benefit of having integrated views of their - data from within Evolution. - </para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para> - Write new modules for the &Evolution; Executive Summary. - This allows you to present commonly-accessed information - in a convenient fashion directly in the &Evolution; Shell. - </para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para> - Modify the core &Evolution; code to add new features or - change its architecture. - </para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </para> - - <sect1 id="organization"> - <title>Organization of this Guide</title> - - <para> - This guide is organized in two big sections. The first is a - programming guide, which consists of one part for each one of - &Evolution;'s components: there are separate parts for the - calendar, the addressbook, the mailer, the executive summary, - and the shell. Each part gives a description of the - architecture of its corresponding component, and also gives - information about the component's internal architecture and - some implementation details. - </para> - - <para> - The second section of this guide is a reference guide for - &Evolution;'s programming interfaces. We have separated these - into public and private interfaces. The public ones are those - that most people will need to use when writing extensions or - third-party components; the private interfaces are those used - internally in &Evolution;. Even if you do not intend to - modify the &Evolution; core code, it may be useful to know a - bit about the way it is organized internally. - </para> - - <para> - &Evolution; is free software, and we want you as a programmer - to make the most of it. We have provided many useful - interfaces that you can use in your own applications. Still, - we want you to view &Evolution; as a framework for building - groupware applications, and this may occasionally involve - making changes to its core code. We want you to learn from - &Evolution;'s design because we think it marks an important - milestone in the development of large-scale free software - applications. We want you to modify it as you see fit. Free - software gives you this freedom, and we want the whole world - to benefit from it. - </para> - </sect1> - </preface> - -<!-- -Local variables: -mode: sgml -sgml-parent-document: ("evolution-devel-guide.sgml" "book" "book" "") -End: ---> |