Re: [Evolution] Evolution's icons

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 20 Feb 2006, at 11:29, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> 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.

In fact, for this specific case, the HIG does recommend being able to  
over-ride toolbar preferences on a per-app basis:

http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/toolbars-controlling- 
display.html

Cheeri,
Calum.

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