Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [OT] Architectural renovation

[Colin Walters]

On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 12:47, Tom Lord wrote:

> If somebody hacks up a mail reader in Gnome, it right away looks and
> feels like the kind of program that MSFT sells a lot of.  

If so, then that's a bug - a lot of Microsoft's programs have quite bad
user interfaces.  GNOME strives to be better than that.

Since Evolution was brought up - it is true that the current UI was
designed to emulate Outlook as much as possible, for sundry marketing
reasons.  However the Evolution team has finally decided to fix this,
see:

http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution-hackers/2003-July/000636.html