Re: [Evolution] Evolution's icons

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 13:01 +0000, Calum Benson wrote:
> 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.

I did not say neither imply in any way, that you need to start this app
manually (in a shell). I merely added this piece of information for the
benefit of anyone out there with a broken desktop.

Right. If your Desktop does not by default ship with the GNOME main menu
(GNOME Desktop) or at least with a convenient and user-friendly way to
access the GNOME Control Center (KDE for example) -- I assume this
desktop to be broken. Please complain to your distro vendor if he failed
to do so. ;)

GNOME does provide it. There should be absolutely no reason to call the
settings "by name" on a decent desktop.


> > 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:

Interesting. gthumb is about the only app that supports this (IIRC), no?
And gthumb isn't even part of the core GNOME Desktop...

...guenther


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