Re: [Evolution] Update to 3.40.0 changed view

[Ralf Mardorf <silver bullet zoho com>]

On Sat, 2021-04-10 at 11:28 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> On Sat, 2021-04-10 at 11:51 +0200, Andre Klapper via evolution-list
> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2021-04-10 at 11:18 +0200, Ralf Mardorf via evolution-list
> > wrote:
> > > seemingly the update from 3.38.4 to 3.40.0 changed the view chosen by
> > > the user, see attachment. I for example prefer one "force image"
> > > button,
> > > over two buttons. IMO updates shouldn't override/overwrite existing
> > > views, at least an update should check, if a button already exists,
> > > instead of adding a duplicate.
> >
> > IMHO it's not up to the software to check whether you may have manually
> > added icons via some hacks, and then check for each icon if it may
> > be shown by default now, and then remove your custom icon's position.
> >
> > If you make random customizations then it is up to you to maintain and
> > rebase these customizations.
> Quite.  What if you have a system with multiple users each making
> customisations? How is that to be reconciled?

Hi,

I don't insist in such a feature, I only want to answer your question.

It should not remove the button/icon from the .config, but when
launching Evolution, Evolution could still add the button/icon as
mentioned by the .config/evolution/ui/evolution-mail.ui and if so, to
skip adding it to the toolbar in addition to a default location.
Evolution could only add the button/icon to a default location or don't
add it at all, if .config doesn't contain it. This would work without
issues even for multi user systems and is done by "if config-file, then,
else" equivalents for a lot of settings by programmers of all kind of
different programming languages, for software all the time. It's not
something unusual to provide such a feature.

I was just surprised to see a duplicated button/icon after an update. A
button/icon that was seemingly considered as unneeded for several
releases by the developers, hence the "hack".

Regards,
Ralf