On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 11:05, Christopher James Lahey wrote: > I'm not going to argue that we should only allow it in an almost > impossible to find place, but we should think long and hard before > including a gui configuration for it. Perhaps the person has to click > on advanced at least once. 99.9% (add lots of 9s here) of people in the > world, if given the task of sending an email, would really be best > served by just using gtkhtml. Hopefully they wouldn't even know it was > html.
Yes, I'm not arguing with that. But the "hard to find" part is not my idea of user friendliness. An "Advanced" button on editor configuration where you could specify an alternative editor is a good idea. Not hard to find (At least I would look for that alternative in the advanced settings) and not too easy to change by mistake. > It's a good point that one of the tenets of free software is choice. > However, anyone who is knowledgeable enough to want to use emacs or vi > here will be knowledgeable enough to figure out how to change a text > file somewhere or run a helper app. If you can find someone who isn't, > I'd be impressed. That's not the point. If I'm using a GUI application with a settings dialog I would like to find the settings I need there. > Yes, but they'll never be able to write an email again. Especially > since evolution settings would persist across uninstalling and > reinstalling evolution. They may even have to resort to creating a new > user or uninstalling and reinstalling the whole OS to get it to work > again. At the very least, they're going to have to call up their hacker > friend to fix it. If they can change the settings to use vim as an editor, they probably can change the setting back to "Default" as well. /Mikael -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mikael Wahlberg | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Månadsvägen 41 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel. +46 (0)8 580 322 62 177 42 JÄRFÄLLA | http://www.acc.umu.se/~mikael | GSM +46 (0)733 279 274 _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
