[ubuntu-us-ut] Airing of grievances (was Meerkat Ditching 'aptitude')

Christian Horne blendmaster1024 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 20 12:44:46 BST 2010


why is anyone still using evolution? it's slow and gigantic ...
blendmaster1024




On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:06 AM, Aaron Toponce <aaron.toponce at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 11:40:37AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote:
>> Mark Shuttleworth has been making Ubuntu a Mac OS X competitor since day
>> one, and he has been very vocal about it. In his mind's eye, if
>> GNU/Linux is to compete with the Big Dogs on the desktop, it needs to
>> act like one. Because GNOME was primarily inspired by Mac OS Classic (9
>> and earlier), it makes sense to design it further to behave like it. If
>> this bothers you, KDE was designed to be a Windows killer, so that might
>> be more your route to take.
>>
>> BUt, the buttons moving to the left, the indicators, the "Me Menu", the
>> task bar, the themes, everything under GNOME from Canonical is designed
>> to compete directly with OS X, not Windows. While it's not my
>> preferrence, they've done more for the look and feel of a desktop than
>> any other vendor.
>
> More Mac-like functionality finding its way into Evolution by default
> for 10.10:
>
> http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-09-19-007-35-NW-UB
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