[ale] email client

[George Johnson]

I have used KDE and Gnome but perfer Afterstep.  I am just having problems
getting it installed on RH and SuSE.  It is ok on Slackware.  I will be
bringing in the system with SuSE 7.3 and hope to find someone with 8.0 disks
to allow an upgrade.  I want to add RH8.0 to my laptop also.

gj

-----Original Message-----
From: aaron [mailto:aaron at pd.org]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 10:39 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] email client


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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