Re: [Evolution] disabled signature setting not sticking in 1.5

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 12:12 +0000, Jules Richardson wrote:
> I don't seem to be able to disable my signature in Evo 1.5.93; if I go
> to tools / settings / mail accounts / edit / identify, I can change the
> signature setting from 'autogenerated' to 'none', but Evo seems to take
> no notice of it. 
>
> Indeed, without even restarting Evo if I set it to none, hit OK, and
> then go to compose a new message, it still includes a default signature
> (selecting between autogenerate / none within the message composer
> works, it's just the setting for the mail account that's not sticking)
>
> Is this a known bug? If not, how/where is this setting stored? It's
> possibly related to the problem I'm having with Evo not picking up the
> Gnome font properties under Slackware, in that it appears Evo might be
> ignoring a large part of the configuration for some reason. I'm still
> trying to get to the bottom of that one (without any luck so far - even
> manually changing the font config for Evo under
> ~/.gconfd/apps/evolution... doesn't result in the change being picked
> up, despite gconfd-2 running
gconfd wont ever re-read those files, once it starts up and they're loaded it only ever writes out, so you need to change settings using gconftool-2, or other code.
> Any ideas? Having to set it every time I compose a message is getting
> annoying :-)
As a workaround create a blank signature.  Seems setting a signature works and is saved, unless you set 'nothing'.

This was reported but we weren't sure it wasn't just an older version and/or we were too lazy to confirm it.

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Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> "born to die, live to work, it's all downhill from here" Novell's Evolution and Free Software Developer