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ChrisCS posted a new comment:
Hello again Tory,

I removed Evolution by using Synaptic. If you run it and make it find
Evolution, there are a lot of entries with green boxes beside them  but
the one to right click on is the single Evolution with the description
of it being a mail client (I forget the exact wording). If you right
click it you can mark it "for complete removal" and Synaptic will tell
you what else is going to be removed. If you then click "Apply",
Evolution and its plugins etc. will then be removed without you losing
the desktop and menu bar. The only other thing that you can remove is
the calendar part of Evolution. The other "bits" of Evolution that you
will see with green boxes beside them are required by other programs
such as Ekiga and (I think) Pidgin, and they should not be removed.

When I first tried to remove Evolution I right-clicked on all the
Evolution entries that had a green box beside them and ended up minus
the desktop and, presumably, a lot of other things with no idea of how
to get them back again and had to re-install Ubuntu in the end.

A lot of people don't seem to like Evolution so it is a pity it seems so
bound into Ubuntu. It would be nice in a forthcoming "incarnation" of
Ubuntu to have the option at the start of the installation to install
either Evolution or some other e-mail client.

I installed Thunderbird as my e-mail client after following the
Ubuntuzilla link that Bhavani Shankar gave me.

I also use XP but I haven't the courage, or the experience with Linux,
to remove it from my hard disc yet

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