Re: Evolution (again)

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On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 21:26 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> 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

Correction: it turns out that nm-applet does work with KDE, so it's not
an example of Gnome bias after all. It's still true what I said about
the docs though.

poc

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