On 15-Jul-09 08:55:25, Steve Fosdick wrote:
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 08:42 +0100, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
The thing now comes with two 'features' which seem designed to destroy usability, and no guide on how to get rid of the things. One is that messages are separated by day and week, with drop down tabs. Why anyone would want this is a mystery. It makes scrolling through your old messages just about impossible. The other is that wherever you move the mouse these crazed popups appear, to obscure whatever you were looking at. This was probably put in in case you should persist in trying to scroll through, and make it doubly impossible!
Possibly the separation by day and week was inspired by MS Outlook which groups recent e-mails by day and older ones by week or month.
Evolution has also implemented some "cleverness" here by changing the format of the displayed date so that e-mails received today show just the time, those received within a week show "Yesterday" or the day of the week and the time and as the message gets older it works up towards the full date/time. The snag is that the person who coded this embedded some date formats that are neither configurable nor honour the user's locale and there is a bug open for it (#205137).
Regards, Steve.
This is possibly a frivolous comment -- but the above tends to reinforce an growing impression that I have been getting lately, that Linux user interfaces are seeking to encourage MS users by giving them the impression that Linux is as "easy" to use as MS, and there will be nothing unfamiliar about it.
In my view, this is winning converts under false pretences!
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it's a Microsoft turkey.
Best wishes to all, Ted.
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