On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 06:59 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: > On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 11:09 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > You should probably close down evolution completely before doing this, > > and don't be tempted to randomly change other keys in dconf unless you > > really, really know what you are doing.
Ritesh advised me to use the dconf-editor for what I wanted to achieve and it worked fine, even while Evolution was still running. So I can confirm that you do NOT have to shut down Evolution before editing settings. > Actually it's fine to change dconf values while Evolution is running. > In fact in many cases when you tweak a value in the Preferences window, > Evolution picks up the new value by reacting to the change notification > from dconf. > > For this particular key I recently replaced the free-form string value > with a set of choices - and have been doing so for other similar keys - > to try and make dconf tweaking even more foolproof. Thanks Matthew for changing to a set of choices. I would not have known which value to put there. Pascal _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
