Re: [Evolution] Avoiding automatic marking as read

[Graham Murray <gmurray webwayone co uk>]

On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 08:41 +0100, Milan Crha 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.
>
>         Hi,
> I never understood the need to remove those options, I also noticed
> multiple users asking for them, especially because those all are
> common
> options, which each sane mail client should have accessible in UI, not
> through "registry" (would you imagine any commercial application
> asking
> users to open "registry" to tweak such fundamental settings?).
>
> That said, I do not agree with "space saving", the cost of it is too
> high, too hard configurability, which is the thing I used to like on
> Gnome (the current trend makes configurability harder and harder,
> sadly).

Or you could go back to the traditional *nix approach and use well
commented text files, which explain each parameter, for configuration.
Alternatively/additionally distribute a man(5) page which explains all
of the configuration options.