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From: Joost Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: thunderbird "fixed" folders? [SOLVED]
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 07:05:22
Message-Id: 2508640.LFZT7EmnN7@eve
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: thunderbird "fixed" folders? [SOLVED] by Tanstaafl
1 On Monday 06 June 2011 11:55:07 Tanstaafl wrote:
2 > On 2011-06-06 11:16 AM, Joost Roeleveld wrote:
3 > >> Not idea, I'll grant you, but it isn't *that* hard to do...
4 > >
5 > > If you know the different locations to change it AND realize you need to
6 > > restart the application for changes like these to take effect?
7 > > These settings should be immediately active.
8 >
9 > I didn't write the software. Wishing something a certain way doesn't
10 > make it so, you have to deal with things as they are.
11
12 It's still bad design.
13 Restarting an application when changing a config-file in a "third-party" editor.
14 Yes, that makes sense.
15 But, when changing a setting using the GUI itself, a restart should not be
16 necessary.
17
18 I'm not using MS Windows where a reboot is necessary for settings to become
19 active.
20
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22 Joost