Evolution (again)

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Tue Mar 18 01:26:03 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 09:36 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 14:48 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:

> > Why configure KDE with a Gnome app??
> 
> You're not configuring KDE. FF is packaged as a Gnome app, so it
> interacts with the Gconf stuff (Gnome's equivalent of the Windows
> Registry), meaning you configure its properties from the Gnome control
> panel (if using Gnome) or equivalently gnome-control-center (or
> gconf-editor if you want to get down to the details). Same goes for
> Evolution BTW.
> 
> OT: as a KDE user of many years standing, it still annoys me that KDE is
> a second-class citizen in Fedora. Sure it's supported, but essentially
> all the Fedora documentation assumes that you're using Gnome. Thus when
> discussing Network Manager for example, we're recommended to use
> nm-applet, which only works if you're running the Gnome desktop.

Holy crap, Batman! <giggles inanely> No wonder it doesn't work for
everyone. I didn't know that! I thought I was just not getting it.
Owell, hand editing continues to work for me. Ric
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