[ale] email client

[aaron]

On Thursday 10 October 2002 23:59, you wrote:
> Any opinions on ximian?

The ximian email client is "Evolution". It is now the default mail client 
in RedHat8.0 / Gnome "Meta**ity" in. (Haven't installed Mandrake 9.0 yet, 
but I would expect it is in there as well.)

My preference is KMail.

>  Looks almost exactly like outlook.

<small rant mode>
Yes, it is truly pitiful that today's desktop designers in the Linux 
world are all so short sighted and lacking in imagination that the best 
they can do copy the countless short comings of the criminal mopoly 
products. The default RedHat 8.0 interface, "Meta**ity", is a totally 
dead-end, crippled redmond clone. It is so ugly and clunky that it needs 
to be completely reconfigured from the outset to be usable by anyone who 
has used Sawfish or Enlightenment or even the more configurable redmond 
clone, KDE. The biggest problem is that the new "Meta**ity" has removed 
about half of the user configurable look and feel options that were found 
in packages like Sawfish, then buried what's left in clumsy, 
decentralized, multiple, icon launched menus. (Apparently the centralized 
Control Panel of the past was too efficient didn't generate enough extra 
mouse clicks and user frustrations.)
</small rant mode>

peace
(after justice)
aaron

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