On Monday 18 November 2002 03:41 pm, Russell Stuart wrote: > Last week I made the move from Outlook to Evolution 1.2. I thought I > would give some feed back on things I am having difficulty adjusting > to.
And then Russell goes on to point out some differences in the details between Outlook and Evolution. I thought I'd respond from the opposite perspective. In 1997, and again in 1998, I tried Outllook as it came with my copy of MS Office 97. I really disliked the way it did things, some of which seemed ok for MSMail, but really seemed unnatural to me for internet mail. I didn't like the way that it forced a PIM into my MUA, either. I was using another PIM that I liked very much, and was annoyed that I had to install the PIM components of Outlook which I had no intention of using. I quickly went back to Pegasus. When Pegasus seemed to fall behind for a while, I tried Outlook again, didn't like it any better and quickly switched to Eudora. After moving from Windows to Linux, I got to really enjoy using kmail in KDE. However, I decided to give Gnome a whirl. Unhappy with Balsa, I decided to try Evolution. For me the similarities of Evolution to Windows are its drawbacks. Not necessarily bad, but not for those of us who abandoned Windows to get away from it, not so that we could exchange it for its open source look alike. Interesting how different people can be. -- _______________________________ Art Alexion Arthur S. Alexion LLC mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexion.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
