Re: [Evolution] Evolution 3.1.x

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

Hi,

On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 11:47 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 18:57 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote: 
> > On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 09:45 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > > As you may remember, I've been running the Evolution mail system under
> > > Fedora-15/KDE for about a month now, and it has some very serious
> > > problems, which I can summarize as: 
> > >      1. It ignores font control from the KDE Settings->Applications
> > >         Appearance window, both KDE font control and GTK+ font
> > >         control, also its own internal font control window.
> >
> > I can't speak for the KDE part, but for the GNOME part this should be
> > fixed by https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=655002 . There is no
> > stable release including the fix yet, though.
> I surmise from this that evolution's fonts are controlled by
> gconf-editor, which manages a tree of control variables for evolution.
> The only relevant section I can find
> is /apps/evolution/mail/display/fonts, which says evolution should use
> a 14 point custom font.  This is what I've set in
>         Evolution->Preferences->Message Display
> but not what evolution does.  Should use gsettings instead? 

As written in the report, this issue is fixed in the code base, but not
in a release (like 3.0.3) yet.
To simplify it a bit: gtkhtml (the library that Evolution uses for this
functionality) was still using GNOME 2's registry system named "gconf"
while the setting was only available via GNOME 3's registry system
"dconf".
If I remember correctly discussions with developers, there are plans to
make a 3.0.3 release next week, which would be picked up by your
distribution and made available to you as an update a few days (?, don't
know Fedora that exactly) later.

> I have already done this, in
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=653957 .  The problem is
> reported to have been fixed in 3.0.3, which is not available in the
> updates repo, nor on koji. 

3.0.3 does not exist yet.
Hopefully next week (see above).

> > > I'd like to try out evolution 3.1.x, which seems to be stuck somewhere
> > > in the pipeline, so I downloaded the latest evolution-3.1.4-1.fc16,
> > > from koji.  Unfortunately it won't run, nor will the source build, due
> > > to incompatibilities between the versions on koji, which are for fc16
> > > and my current fc15 system.
> >
> > JHBuild might be an option: http://live.gnome.org/Jhbuild . Note that
> > https://live.gnome.org/JhbuildDependencies/Fedora is slightly outdated
> > and does not list Fedora 15 (yet) so you'll run into some issues when
> > using jhbuild that will require installing additional packages.
> Looks interesting, but appears to have a major learning curve,
> particularly if it doesn't support fc15. 

It *does* support F15. It's just that there wasn't yet a listing of
prerequisites. I've added that section now, but of course I agree that
it's still quite technical.

andre
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