Neil wrote: > Well, I think instead of getting rid of it, it should simply be used. > The reason it's not being used, I imagine, is because not all programs > are Gnome exclusive (and they shouldn't be), and this is a Gnome > exclusive feature. > > One way to handle this that I can think of right now (and I haven't > slept in a while, so forgive me if unfogged minds find this stupid) is > to have a sort of unified standard for DEs to provide user information > and a standard way for programs to call the information from whatever DE > is active and then let it be used however. [snip]
Is this really a problem that needs to be solved, though? I'm not sure I enter this type of information into any of one my applications, let alone a whole slew of them. Cheers, Steven Garrity _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
