Re: Preferences window

[Albrecht Dreß <albrecht dress arcor de>]

Am 08.07.04 19:17 schrieb(en) Darko Obradovic:

> I don't want an endless argument, but don't people define their LANG in  
> their own ".cshrc|.bashrc|.profile|whatever" in such cases?

'Cause they are usually not Unix expert users (like most others buying a  
disto off the shelf); probabely the majority of them doesn't even know  
that these files exist, what they do, and what syntax they need. For their  
level it doesn't make a difference to edit these files or .gnome2/balsa...
IMHO, from the average user's pov, there are only two user-friendly  
options (did you ever see a MacOS X user edit a text cfg file?):

The best would be a really bullet-proof automagic algorithm like Jeff's  
one, and maybe only one pref setting display "?"/guess charset. The second  
best one (and that's what we have now) is to give her|him control through  
a gui to select what (s)he wants to see.

Cheers, Albrecht.

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