Re: [Evolution] how to start over

[Zan Lynx <zlynx acm org>]

On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org> wrote:

+1 +1 +1 +1

WHY THE CONSTANT SNEAKING AROUND UNDERNEATH THE APPLICATION??????  IF
YOU DO THAT AND THE APPLICATION BREAKS IT IS ****YOUR**** FAULT, AND
**NOT** THE FAULT OF THE APPLICATION.

To add, remove, change a mail account I have never in ten plus years
[when did Evolution first come out?] had to do ANYTHING but configure it
IN EVOLUTION USING ACCOUNTS SETUP!

Because for the 20 years of Unix before that, there was a human readable and editable dot-config file. And there was a directory or file of data, again human readable.

Evolution is more like a Windows program than Unix software. I have to wonder what the authors were thinking.

Why Evolution and other programs like it have to be sneaking around and making their configuration unreadable and uneditable, I don't understand.

And think of this: When confronted with hundreds of menus and submenus it is often MUCH easier to just go to the configuration file in VI, search for the configuration item and change it. Or in the case of a program like Firefox, about:config.

Or say that you've changed your email address. In Unix-world you could grep oldemail example com .??* and find everywhere it needs to be changed.

I suppose in Evolution world the poor sap would be required to go into each program's menu MANUALLY and suffer through whatever GUI happens to be there.