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).
it's defensible anyway. > > 2) Although copying the same code in every app is wasteful indeed it is > , an elegant > solution would have every app *interfacing* to the central control > system. it does, gconf > 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. And what if the user prefers a system like TWM? What then? You're assuming that the user runs either GNOME or KDE, but not everyone does. > > 3) The Novell page on Evo > (http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html) does > not mention any dependance on the Gnome desktop. it doesn't depend on GNOME to run, it just depends on the GNOME libs and uses system-wide GNOME settings (which can be set without the GNOME desktop apps installed) you can use gconftool-2 or gconf-editor to change settings. > > Does anyone on the Evo development team use a desktop other than Gnome? NotZed doesn't use GNOME Jeff _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - evolution@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
