Trimming away some of the irrelevant bits of this conversation... On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 17:24, guenther wrote:
> > Well, there isn't much that uses gnome-spell besides Evolution. I can't > > think of another application off the top of my head. > > Uh, not? Sorry, I just simply assumed, gnome-spell would be the standard > component for all Gnome apps to spell check. What do those other apps > use, then? Evolution uses a component, i.e. another process that, in theory, can handle spelling for multiple applications. Doesn't seem to work that way in practice. Most other apps are using libraries directly rather than the component. > I like to tweak and optimize things, that are more under the hood and > not visible to the user. Having a GUI for that is good -- but having no > choice besides the GUI is not the traditional UNIX/Linux way. There is a command-line interface: gconftool (which now comes in gconftool-1 and gconftool-2 flavors). Useful for scripting, e.g. in package postinstalls. Arguably superior in that regard to scriptable text editing, e.g. sed. > FWIW: I think I can deal with a centralized configuration. At least it > is done by hackers, that sure wanna even more control than I want. And i > doubt, we will end up with such a mess like the MS registry... Notable advantages of GConf over the MS registry: - It's entirely user-level; no machine-level settings stored in GConf. - That being the case, problems won't prevent the machine from booting and shouldn't even prevent you from loggin in, assuming you have a "safe mode" alternative to GNOME, e.g. the console, remote login, or vanilla X. -Mark Gordon _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
