Re: [Evolution] Evolution is dying

[Jimmy Montague <rhetoric101 hughes net>]

Now you've made my ears stick up! What's this about a 'unity-tweak-tool'?

On 05/29/2014 04:11 PM, N B Day wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-05-29 at 16:10 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > On Thu, 2014-05-29 at 20:30 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2014-05-29 at 12:32 -0500, Jimmy Montague wrote:
> > > > I've got Evolution open in front of me now and there IS
> > > > no Help>About that I can locate. Got a hint? If you do, lay it on me.
> > > > Of course, I'm back on a Ubuntu system
> > > Version info could be helpful. Either Ubuntu replaced the string by
> > > something else, or the main application menu is hidden.
> > Probably the later, Ubuntu likes to hack Gtk to force weird behavior.
> >
> > Perhaps maybe the Help/About is available in the "App" menu in the GNOME
> > top-bar when Evolution is selected.
> Exactly.  In the Mac-like "global menu," which IMHO is a terrible
> design error but easily rectified with the unity-tweak-tool to give
> normal application menus (in versions 14.04 and later).  The OP should
> indeed look in the top bar.
>
> > Beats me, I don't now [this is just another thing Ubuntu breaks].
> Copying Apple *always* breaks stuff.
>
> Convergence is interesting though.  Eagerly awaiting an Ubuntu tablet
> here so I can get a *real* MUA on an easy-to-carry platform with an
> interface I already know and (more or less) love.