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[Tory <question35600@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #35600 on Ubuntu changed:
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Tory posted a new comment:
Many thanks...I am always hoping to be ms free....
I think I clicked on too many things with the word evolution and paid the
learning price.

Mahalo,


On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:51 AM, ChrisCS <question35600@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> Question #35600 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/35600
>
> 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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