On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 22:43 -0400, Adam Skobel wrote: > I was looking through the new features of gnome 2.12 and looking at > gnome-about-me and looking to see how it could be used to make the > gnome desktop better, and realized that its asking for some > information it already knows and isn't asking other basic > information... > > Basically, the two things its asking me that I don't see a reason for > is my email addresses, which Evolution already knows, my instant > messenger IDs, which Gaim knows (also it strikes me as a bit odd that > gnome-about-me labels the AIM field as AIM/iChat, I've never seen it > labeled with iChat before, since iChat is just a program which happens > to also support Jabber, so that label is confusing and makes no > sense). > Gaim doesn't use GConf or Evolution-Data-Server at all, this means that there is no easy way to use the information that Gaim knows, if they ever start to use GConf/EDS I will fix this issue.
> Another thing that struck me as odd on it is that it doesn't ask me > for my name at all! The name is what would actually be useful > information. An example of its use would be in gaim to automatically > make my alias my name (just an idea, I'm sure you can see its > usefulness). Some distributions don't let the user change his/her name, I'm hoping for the name to be setup correctly at user creation time while i figure out some way of syncing the GECOS fields with gnome-about-me. > > -- Adam > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
