strange - evolution default view is customized - why?
I am doing some homework
On SLES 10 SP 2 I have to install the evolution from SLED(enterprise Desktop) 10 SP 2.
on a system I installed evolution and all its pre-reqs, and then created the tar of all the directories created by evolution and other packages(dependencies of evolution)
then I create a tar via tar cvf /evolution.tar `cat newfile.txt`
Now on any machine if I extract the /evolution.tar, it works, i,e evolution works quite fine.
Problem: the only problem I am facing is that when any user runs evolution(after pop/smtp configuration) following options are by default UN-check 1, Toolbar 2, Status bar 3, Side Bar the above three options are available in View, so I have to enable the above options manually, by click on View > then click/enable Toolbar and "Status bar" and "Side Bar"
and I have to uncheck(disable) the "Hide buttons" options in View > Switch Appearance > Hide Buttons.
all of the above things are configured when we install via normall method(via rpm command or via YaST), but if I untar the evolution.tar, I have to do as above.
anyone can please help me in this. Why evolution starts with a "customized view" ? why evolution doesn't starts with the default view ? how can I make it run with the default view
Re: strange - evolution default view is customized - why?
packages in linux (rpm & deb & others) are more then just a tar.gz file, if it were just that, they would be used tar.gz (like slackware). however, these packages also contain scripts, run during the installation, i suggest you take a look at the scripts for these packages, probably they setup something that allows/disallows these settings.
Re: strange - evolution default view is customized - why?
excellent reply Dear Dirk Dierickx
on the source machine(where I have installed evolution from rpm), I ran the following command # rpm -q --scripts evolution the above command shows me some output, I put that output in a file, then run that file on the destination(where i untar), and now evolution starts with the default(required/desired) options/view.
