On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 18:33 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 18:20 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 17:42 +0800, Not Zed wrote: > > > Evolution never had its own setting for the toolbar, nor should it, it > > > is a desktop-wide feel thing, having every application use its own > > > setting is just stupid and annoying. > > > > 1) This is defensible if everyone uses the same desktop, but they don't. > > (Even if they did, I can easily imagine wanting different settings on > > different apps). > > > > 2) Although copying the same code in every app is wasteful, an elegant > > solution would have every app *interfacing* to the central control > > system. The fact that they don't means there is an assumption that Gnome > > is the desktop and the user will just click on the Gnome Control Panel. > > > > 3) The Novell page on Evo > > (http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html) does > > not mention any dependance on the Gnome desktop. > > > > Does anyone on the Evo development team use a desktop other than Gnome? > > The KDE people solve the problem by providing the "qtconfig" utility so > people can change settings that affect all QT apps without having to run > KDE. If Gnome apps all rely on gconfd running then Gnome is broken.
how do you figure? you realise that you can change GNOME settings without the need for GNOME-Control-Centre right? > There needs to be a fallback to a config file. gconf is effectively a front-end for accessing a config file. I fail to follow your logic. Jeff _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - evolution@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
