Reporting the correct Evolution version number

When requesting help from support, from the Evo lists, or from your friendly-neighborhood consultant, it's always helpful to report the version of Evolution you're on: sometimes things are fixed in subsequent (or prior) releases.

Unfortunately, the obvious way — look at the version in the window's title bar — to do this is also the wrong way, because the one that matters (the SYSTEM database version) is shown second.

For a given application version (here, 16.05.00.18) there could be more than one SYSTEM db version: here, we see SYSTEM db version 16.05.0.1, but a 16.05.0.2 was also released but sharing the same application version number.

When reporting the Evo version, always look at the second number in the title bar, and report it as "We're on SYSTEM database version 16.5.0.1"

Sometimes the distinction doesn't matter, but often it does, and if you get in the habit of always reporting the SYSTEM db version, you'll always be correct. And there's no need to mention the Application version.

iSystems was requested to make small changes to the title bar to clear this up, but, sadly, weren't at all interested.