On 6/12/2007 6:19 AM, Steven Garrity wrote: > 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 OpenOffice.org could easily use it and has space for it.
Besides that, like I said, I couldn't think of any applications that used it. (At least on Linux...) If the availability was there, though, applications might find use for it. But, I agree. It's hardly at the top of the priority list... _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
