On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 05:36 +0100, guenther wrote: > The GNOME Desktop aims at providing a consistent look-and-feel across > the entire desktop. So some general UI related settings and other ones > are shared across all GNOME applications, which in turn means, the app > itself does not provide it, but the desktop. Similar to the font > settings of the UI, for example.
Consistency is overrated IMHO (it's a means to an end, not the end itself), but even accepting it as a given I don't see why apps can't directly access the preferences widget(s) without the user a) having to know there is an entirely separate command for this, and b) knowing enough to invoke a Shell to execute it. It seems to me that even having a preferences item that just called gnome-control-center would be a huge improvement. Just because a setting is desktop-wide doesn't mean there should be only one way to get to it. Similar comments would apply to KDE of course, mutatis mutandis. poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
