Re: [Evolution] Avoiding automatic marking as read

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 08:39 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 23:05 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 22:13 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 21:28 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > > OK, thanks. Is there some rationale for removing this from the UI?
> > >
> > > Purging the more esoteric and seldom used options to try and get the
> > > window size under control.  There's more to be done but it's a start.
> >
> > Perhaps a comment along the lines of "For other options use 'gsettings'
> > from the Shell" would at least give a hint.
> How about an Evolution configuration utility that allows you to play
> with the "more esoteric and seldom used" options ... a sort of Edit ->
> Preferences on steroids?

+1, but there should be a link to it from within the Evo UI.

> I know people will say that you can just use the Gnome utilities to get
> to them, but it's not always obvious where the settings are and telling
> users to "just use gsettings" from the command line will not go down
> well in some quarters.

The relationship between the settings and Evo's preferences is not
always obvious. Using gsettings at all requires one to have a working
knowledge of 'schemas', 'keys' etc., which are not part of the mental
baggage of the typical email user even when there's a graphical
interface for it, and of course some of us actually use Evolution on
other desktops. I use KDE and getting to the Gnome settings already
requires typing a command to a Shell.

> I also fear that further down the line some of these options and configs
> may be silently dropped because "there's no UI to alter them, so why
> have them".
>
> Could the documentation / FAQs be updated to reflect the need to use
> gsettings for some things - at least then we will have somewhere to
> point people to when these Evo releases hit the, err, "more popular"
> distros.

Agreed. There are a few references to gsettings in the Evo help but not
specifically for the case I was asking about, besides which the typical
user is not going to know to do a search for 'gsettings'.

poc