Re: [Fwd: [evolution-patches] addressbook fixes]

[Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>]

tor 2004-09-30 klockan 14.53 skrev William Jon McCann:
[...]
> > Regarding the new added string, "Show the \"Preview\" pane", I'd still
> > like to know what the problem is that it fixes, and how important that
> > fix is considered to be. If it's not terribly important, then it should
> > probably only go into HEAD, but if it fixes some kind of problem that
> > developers consider important to fix in GNOME 2.8, then it's a different
> > thing. But I'd really like to know for sure (is there a bug report about
> > the problem somewhere?) and some more details before deciding.
> 
> The schema for the preview pane visibility GConf setting is missing. 
> This means that the default value is not set.  In this case, 
> gconf_client_get_bool will return FALSE.  The "Preview" pane is really a 
> misnomer, it is, in fact, the "View" pane.  So, by default, the user 
> will not see Addressbook entries when they are selected.  This is very 
> confusing for first-time users.  Most will not think to look in the view 
> menu for an option to turn something on that they don't already know 
> exists.  Also some others don't think the "Preview" pane describes what 
> they need.
> 
> In fact, I only discovered this bug after doing some first-time user 
> testing of Evolution-2.0 on RHEL3.  It was one of the most common 
> complaints (many of the others have already been fixed).  This hits the 
> user in that critical initial evaluation period.

Ok, sounds like a rather important bug. That added string has my string
freeze approval, given that you let translators know when the patch has
been committed to CVS, so that translators will know when to update
their translations.

Thanks,
Christian