Re: [Evolution] Evolution's icons

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 05:36 +0100, guenther wrote:
> 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.

Consistency is overrated IMHO (it's a means to an end, not the end
itself), but even accepting it as a given I don't see why apps can't
directly access the preferences widget(s) without the user a) having to
know there is an entirely separate command for this, and b) knowing
enough to invoke a Shell to execute it. It seems to me that even having
a preferences item that just called gnome-control-center would be a huge
improvement.

Just because a setting is desktop-wide doesn't mean there should be only
one way to get to it.

Similar comments would apply to KDE of course, mutatis mutandis.

poc