Re: [Evolution] Updating the UI?

[Ralf Mardorf <silver bullet zoho com>]

On Fri, 2018-03-30 at 18:12 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-03-30 at 09:12 -0500, Paul Stejskal wrote:
> > Hello. I was wondering if there were any plans to make Evolution look a little more modern? The 
> > underlying software works very well nowadays and isn't
> > as quirky as it used to be, but I was wondering if there were any plans to modernize the UI at all? I 
> > know I can theme things to some degree, but that
> > only seems to change colors and icons.
>
> What does "a little more modern" mean? Remember that much of Evo's UI
> is dictated by Gnome so there isn't that much scope for change.

"Modern" sounds to me as following the fashion to make desktop computer
apps looking like tablet PC and smart phone apps". We can't discuss
esthetic quality, but we could discuss GUI design related to the
provided features. If somebody should consider something flashy as
tablet PC and smart phone apps as "modern", s/he should keep in mind
that those apps don't provide even all necessary features a MUA should
provide, let alone useful, but nonessential features. Migrating the GUI
to that tablet PC and smart phone apps style much likely comes along
with dropping a lot of much wanted options.