Re: [Evolution] Evolution's icons

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

Since this follow-up may be interesting to others as well, I send it to
the list too, where it originated -- although the mail was sent to me
only. Can't tell if it was on purpose or by accident anyway. Hope you
don't mind me keeping list posts on-list. ;-)


On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 15:24 -0500, Peter N. Spotts wrote:
> You're  flippin' genius. I opted for text only, and that saves yet more
> space. Having just come off of Thunderbird, I expected those controls to
> be part of the View menu...

Hehe, thanks. :-)

Well, Thunderbird is a stand-alone application, whereas Evolution is
part of the GNOME Desktop. That's why Thunderbird needs to provide every
option itself. [1]

The GNOME Desktop aims at providing a consistent look-and-feel across
the entire desktop. So some general UI related settings and other ones
are shared across all GNOME applications, which in turn means, the app
itself does not provide it, but the desktop. Similar to the font
settings of the UI, for example.

Regardless if your actual Desktop Environment is GNOME, KDE or anything
else. Evolution is a GNOME app.


Similar questions do come up frequently. If you did not have a look at
the GNOME Control Center [2], you might want to do so now. [3]


> Many thanks,

Sure, glad it works. :)

...guenther


[1] Well, if it does. If the Thunderbird preferences are as crappy as
    the Firefox ones compared to Mozilla, I am surprised to see useful
    options at all.

[2] The 'gnome-control-center' executable, in case you don't have a menu
    item for it.

[3] You can access all of 'em directly on a GNOME Desktop from your main
    menu (Desktop / Preferences).

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