On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 08:39 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 23:05 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 22:13 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: > > > On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 21:28 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > OK, thanks. Is there some rationale for removing this from the UI? > > > > > > Purging the more esoteric and seldom used options to try and get the > > > window size under control. There's more to be done but it's a start. > > > > Perhaps a comment along the lines of "For other options use 'gsettings' > > from the Shell" would at least give a hint. > > > How about an Evolution configuration utility that allows you to play > with the "more esoteric and seldom used" options ... a sort of Edit -> > Preferences on steroids?
+1, but there should be a link to it from within the Evo UI. > I know people will say that you can just use the Gnome utilities to get > to them, but it's not always obvious where the settings are and telling > users to "just use gsettings" from the command line will not go down > well in some quarters. The relationship between the settings and Evo's preferences is not always obvious. Using gsettings at all requires one to have a working knowledge of 'schemas', 'keys' etc., which are not part of the mental baggage of the typical email user even when there's a graphical interface for it, and of course some of us actually use Evolution on other desktops. I use KDE and getting to the Gnome settings already requires typing a command to a Shell. > I also fear that further down the line some of these options and configs > may be silently dropped because "there's no UI to alter them, so why > have them". > > Could the documentation / FAQs be updated to reflect the need to use > gsettings for some things - at least then we will have somewhere to > point people to when these Evo releases hit the, err, "more popular" > distros. Agreed. There are a few references to gsettings in the Evo help but not specifically for the case I was asking about, besides which the typical user is not going to know to do a search for 'gsettings'. poc _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
