Re: [Evolution] Why is Evo so ugly?

2007-11-08 Thread Caleb Marcus
That's not the case, I didn't mean for it to sound that way. I'm saying that if you're on KDE, it may look ugly because it's a Gnome application and thus won't match with your other KDE apps. However, since you're on Gnome, it should look just like every other application... what don't you like abo

Re: [Evolution] Why is Evo so ugly?

2007-11-08 Thread Jesse Scarcege
Hi Marcus, Because I'm a newbie using Evo with ubuntu, I didn't know that my choice of my gnome desktop was the reason of my Evo lacking eye candy. I ask apologies to all the fine and distinguish members of the evo mailing list whose feelings for evo were shattered by my comments :) Jesse On Thu

Re: [Evolution] Moving to Evo from Thunderbird?

2007-11-08 Thread Caleb Marcus
If you use the button to manually check for messages, then the detailed dialog box makes a lot of sense. However, you can set it to automatically check every so often, and it won't display the dialog box then. On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 07:46 -0500, Wendell Mackenzie wrote: > and stop displaying that a

Re: [Evolution] Why Evo is so ugly?

2007-11-08 Thread Caleb Marcus
In my previous email, I think I wrongly assumed you were using Windows because of your mention of Outlook. If you are, you can manually install a GTK theme to make it look okay. If you're using Gnome, it should fit in with most of your applications, and I don't see why you'd find it ugly. If you're

Re: [Evolution] Why is Evo so ugly?

2007-11-08 Thread Caleb Marcus
What makes you think it's ugly? I've used Outlook, and I have to say that I find Evolution quite nice looking... perhaps the default GTK+ theme in the Windows version is ugly, because on Linux, it looks fine. Maybe you should send a screenshot of what it looks like on your system, so we can see if

Re: [Evolution] Why Evo is so ugly?

2007-11-08 Thread Brett Johnson
On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 11:38 -0500, Art Alexion wrote: > Take a look at Kontact. If you are looking for outlook, it's scary > different. Hmm, I guess I really shouldn't have suggested Kontact, since I'm really very unfamiliar with it. My apologies to anyone who uses it, likes it, and is offended

Re: [Evolution] Why Evo is so ugly?

2007-11-08 Thread Art Alexion
On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 10:37 -0500, Brett Johnson wrote: > If by "ugly", you mean "doesn't look/behave exactly like msoutlook", > then you might be better served with a KDE app (kdepim, or kontact, or > somesuch). IME, KDE-based apps tend to look and behave a lot more > like > MS apps than gnome/gt

Re: [Evolution] Why Evo is so ugly?

2007-11-08 Thread Brett Johnson
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 23:31 -0800, Jesse Scarcege wrote: > HI, > > Excuse me if I offend somebody but I thin Evo's GUI is so ugly that > every time I use it it makes me want to go back to Outlook. > is there anyway to change Evo's theme or to replace that boring gray color? Evo just uses your gno

Re: [Evolution] Moving to Evo from Thunderbird?

2007-11-08 Thread Wendell Mackenzie
and stop displaying that annoying message dialog when it does the server check for messages... just display a small progress bar in the bottom portion of the window with a cancel operation button. jm2cts. Wendell On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 17:43 -0500, Caleb Marcus wrote: > One thing that's always b

Re: [Evolution] Moving to Evo from Thunderbird?

2007-11-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 13:42 +1000, Ian Mortimer wrote: > On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 11:38 -0500, Chris Williams wrote: > > > I can't be the only exception to this. I've been using Evo since > > it's .9x days on various flavors of Fedora Core, and recently Ubuntu. > > In all this time, I have only seen