Re: [Evolution] toolbar display text

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 18:33 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 18:20 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 17:42 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > > Evolution never had its own setting for the toolbar, nor should it, it
> > > is a desktop-wide feel thing, having every application use its own
> > > setting is just stupid and annoying.
> >
> > 1) This is defensible if everyone uses the same desktop, but they don't.
> > (Even if they did, I can easily imagine wanting different settings on
> > different apps).
> >
> > 2) Although copying the same code in every app is wasteful, an elegant
> > solution would have every app *interfacing* to the central control
> > system. The fact that they don't means there is an assumption that Gnome
> > is the desktop and the user will just click on the Gnome Control Panel.
> >
> > 3) The Novell page on Evo
> > (http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html) does
> > not mention any dependance on the Gnome desktop.
> >
> > Does anyone on the Evo development team use a desktop other than Gnome?
>
> The KDE people solve the problem by providing the "qtconfig" utility so
> people can change settings that affect all QT apps without having to run
> KDE.  If Gnome apps all rely on gconfd running then Gnome is broken.

how do you figure?

you realise that you can change GNOME settings without the need for
GNOME-Control-Centre right?

> There needs to be a fallback to a config file.

gconf is effectively a front-end for accessing a config file. I fail to
follow your logic.

Jeff