From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040809 Description of problem: Evolution, bless its little soul, likes to store its configuration information as lists of fairly substantial XML strings inside GConf (see e.g. /apps/evolution/mail/accounts, and /apps/evolution/mail/signatures. Unfortunately when you try to edit these, the GtkEntry is about 100 pixels wide and is not resizeale, which is really painful when trying to track doen evolution configuration issues. I've got a patch which makes it use a GtkTextEntry widget Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run gconf-editor from an account where evolution is installed and set up 2. Try to edit /apps/evolution/mail/accounts 3. Try to edit a UID attribute value deep inside one of the XML files stored in the list Actual Results: Tiny, non-resizing GtkEntry widget that is really hard to use Expected Results: Resizable, multiline, scrollable GtkTextEntry Additional info: Have filed upstream here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154012
It didn't occur to you to fix Evolution to not store huge blobs of XML in GConf ? :-)) I'd prefer not to backport arbitrary UI changes from HEAD unless they really provide a big win. In this case, the I think the XML itself is difficult enough to grok that making it physically easier to edit won't actually help many people. Closing as UPSTREAM. Thanks Dave.