Re: [Evolution] ~/.signature

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> > I honestly do *not* consider this a problem.
> >
> > There was no way within Evolution 1.2.x (that is, using the GUI) to let
> > signatures point to other files -- as it is in 1.4.x versions. Thus, the
> > user decided willingly to trick out Evo and use undocumented features.
> >
> > Any user, who did so, should still know that he tricked on Evo even
> > after upgrade.
>
> Hope I'm not butting in but being OP I'm wondering if I'm the one you're
> referring to as 'tricking' Evo?  If so, (IMO) a user doing something
> with a _user_ file that no one app owns isn't what I'd consider a trick.
> And editing a user file such as ~/.sig doesn't constitute an
> undocumented feature.  ~/.sig is a _user_ file - not an Evo file.

Well, to clear the confusion:

Tricking Evolution refers to every user, who bypasses the given GUI and
edits the configuration files by hand. Evolution offers a way to
customize its behavior using a GUI. (That applies to every GUI app.)

I do *not* consider manual editing bad. Actually, I love to do it
myself.

I just stated, that every user brave enough to do so, should know it is
going to be risky. Don't blame *any* program, if you bypass the programs
logic to achieve your goal.


> If you want the story from the horse's mouth, OP said nothing about
> making Evo use links for ~/.sig.  OP said Evo wiped out an existing
> ~/.sig link and took over the file for itself.  Uncool (IMO).

Yep, uncool.

Actually, I am not quite sure, what went wrong on your system. Evo never
touches your ~/.signature file, unless you edited the conf files. Did
you?

A symlink ~/.signature pointing to any other file, will *not* be
removed, when touching the real 'other' file. This file even does not
know about it...


> But if you weren't referring to OP, never mind...

Nope, at least IMHO this was a general discussion, not specialized to
your issue.

...guenther


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