Re: [Evolution] Evolution setup

[Alex Evans <alex4orly gmail com>]

Hi Pete,

Thanks for your comments, yes - you are right. I use only POP accounts.

KDE - can I install it ontop of GNOME? 
If I don't like it, can I go back? 
Is there a list of extra's i provides? 
How to install? 

Yes, I am one of those Laymen, please talks down to me...

Cheers
Alex

On Sun, 2020-08-16 at 14:45 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > 3) The people in the forum, are trying to help (from my own
> > experience)
> > , but - they are unable to get down to our "Layman" level
> > naturally, so
> > when you pose a question, be specific and say where you are at this
> > stage.
>
> It's not that people have a problem "getting down" to a layman level
> -
> it's that sometimes it's very difficult to determine a person's
> ability: people get (very) offended by talking down to them as much
> as
> people complain about making it too difficult to understand. 
>
> > 4) Linux is a very open OS and offers many configuration options,
> > which
> > for beginners like us makes it confusing. Most of those options can
> > only be executed through command line / Terminal commands, unlike
> > the
> > GUI you and I are used to.
>
> No, most people can deal with Linux without ever going near the
> command
> line.  The level of configurability is to some extent down to the
> desktop you use - Gnome tries to keep things relatively uncluttered
> and
> not all configuration options are available through the user
> interface;
> KDE has a reputation for being ultra configurable, where all aspects
> of
> the application can be configured somewhere. They're different that's
> all.  Evolution is a Gnome application and so not everything can be
> done through the GUI - but things that can't are usually obscure or
> legacy configurations - in day to day use you don't need the command
> line.
>
> > 1) I am used to Outlook in Windows. I created a backup and imported
> > it
> > into Evolution - there is an Import option - under the File menu
> > option.
> > 2) Evolution is a very powerful package. All my folders were
> > imported
> > from Outlook.
> > 3) Evolution installs with a UNIFIED inbox by default. All my many
> > email accounts are comming into ONE Inbox
>
> We need to unpack this statement.
>
> The way that Evolution deals with the mail is dependent on the
> account
> type.  IMAP and other types where the mail is stored in a place that
> Evolution has no direct control over have separate inboxes with each
> account having it's own folder tree in the left hand pane.  
>
> Accounts were Evolution downloads mail to it's own folders and where
> Evolution has direct control over the storage locations are "unified"
> into one inbox under "On this Computer". This primarily means POP3
> accounts.
>
> So all the POP3 accounts will download their mail into the local
> Inbox;
> IMAP accounts will each have their own folder.
>
> So Evolution doesn't use a single Inbox by default, but it looks that
> way if you only ever use POP.
>
> P.
>
>
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