Re: [Evolution] Close window on reply

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 11:59 -0400, Youssef Mahmoud wrote:
> I noticed in dconf-editor this key was labeled as deprecated.

        Hi,
you are right, it is replaced with browser-close-on-reply-policy, which
uses enum, instead of free form string. The code still synchronizes the
two values, thus it worked for you when you changed it.

As a side note, calling directly dconf is perfectly fine, because
most/all of the distributions use it as the configuration storage.
There is also provided 'gsettings' binary, which has similar arguments
and which uses 'currently preferred configuration storage', thus the
same which the application run in the same environment does.

> Is that why it's not configurable within the Preferences GUI?

As Pete said, there are many hidden options in the GSettings, with
which one can fine tune behavior. There had been some effort to
simplify the preferences in the GUI. It sometimes looks oversimplified,
but there had been tried to have some balance over what add and what
not in the GUI. Simply, over-simplified and over-complicated settings
are equally wrong, from my point of view. The downside is to use
low-level tools to change the options, which is not user friendly and
it's even less intuitive.
        Bye,
        Milan