Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Look, there are a lot of things that someone might want to configure > about their environment. Rather than assume that you know what each > user wants, a freshly created account could have some icons on the > desktop for personalizing the experience.
For better or worse, we have a different approach in Ubuntu. We actively make choices on behalf of our users, presenting them with an environment that is ready to go. Often, there are expert users who have different preferences, we ask them to go the extra mile to get the environment to their satisfaction, we don't ask everyone to make a lot of choices just to get to a sane starting point. The process of selecting the defaults is transparent, and you'd be welcome to participate. We don't want to be presenting new users with an experience that's suboptimal in the general case, and we're willing to make changes to previous decisions (we're busy moving from Pidgin to Empathy, for example) when circumstances change or we have better insight. In this case, Evolution will appear there because we are telling new users "this is where you do messaging", and Evolution is the default mail client we've selected. Some users will have other preferences, they are usually smart and competent enough to make those changes. Mark -- Indicator applet Always shows icon https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/410220 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
