Re: [Evolution] ~/.signature

[Erik Bågfors <erik bagfors nu>]

On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 15:55, guenther wrote:
> > > 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.)
[CUT]
> 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?


I NEVER edited any evolution configuration files by hand and still that
gconf-entry points to ~/.signature.  Somehow that can happen in an
upgrade between 1.2.x and 1.3.x/1.4.x (perhaps only 1.3.x?)

I'm not complaining, I like that fact that evo is using ~/.signature for
me :)

/Erik

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