[5587] in testers
Re: Gnome conversion and Evolution issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Fri Jun 27 15:20:35 2003
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
Cc: "Thomas H. Grayson" <thg@mit.edu>, testers@mit.edu
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Testers:
A default signature of "None" should be coded into the Athena Evolution
defaults.
Tom:
Here is the sequence of commands to do that for yourself.
MenuBar: "Tools" -> "Settings..."
"Mail Accounts" selection.
Click on "MIT mail [Default]"
Click ion "Edit" which should no longer be grayed out.
Under the "Identity" tab, select "None" as your default signature, or
"Add new signature..." if you want a custom one.
Cheers,
-wdc
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 22:51, Greg Hudson wrote:
> Your panel conversion problem may be a new bug, or it may be just the
> conversion scripts being imperfect. I'll look into it.
>
> On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 20:03, Thomas H. Grayson wrote:
> > - My gnome-terminal font and colors have been reset to the defaults. (I
> > know the font issue has been raised before.) I actually like to the new
> > font better, though I wanted it to be smaller (like Bill Cattey).
>
> Converting your font preferences from GNOME 1 isn't feasible; the new
> method of configuration is easier, but totally incompatible with the old
> one.
>
> > Resetting the window colors (I like yellow on black) is a bit annoying.
> > Despite specifying a palette of several colors below, the profile editor
> > won't let you use them; instead you need to pick the color in the color
> > picker, which I don't find very friendly, especially if you want
> > something generic like yellow.
>
> The pallette is there to specify the colors to be used by ANSI color
> sequences. I agree that it would be friendlier if you could drag them
> over as a side benefit.
>
> > - When I logged in and later tried to move the "foot" icon in the
> > taskbar (see image) I received an error dialog that read:
> >
> > "Failed to load image /usr/athena/share/pixmaps/gnome-run.png
> >
> > Details: file not found"
>
> Yuck, this is a bit of a problem. GNOME likes to use full paths of
> image files for these things, but right now we have them in
> /usr/athena/share on Solaris and mostly in /usr/share on Linux, because
> we use lots of native GNOME packages on Linux. I'll have to think about
> this one.
>
> > - Ximian Evolution e-mail reader promptly crashed while I tried to read
> > my mail for the first time. This happened after I tried to stop it from
> > loading some spam and then clicked onto the next message.
>
> I haven't seen this. If you can find a message which reliably crashes
> it, save a copy and I'll look into it.
>
> > - Evolution reset my e-mail signature to what appears below.
>
> Hrm. Bill also noticed some kind of signature issue, but I didn't.
> I'll see what I can find out.
>
