Comment 57 for bug 23810

I assume the --express mode is related to <a href="http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/evolution-express-for-meego.html">this meego project</a>. which describes the calendar being split off and run as a separate program, perhaps the same in Ubuntu? I'm finding it hard to figure out what the Ubuntu devs have done, the evolution man page doesn't mention --express and does mention a --usage option which doesn't exist so I guess the man page has got out of sync with the program.

Seems perfectly reasonable to me to discuss 1024x600 here rather than starting a new thread to discuss the same issue. Perhaps the title should be "Evolution is unusable at less than 1280x1024", but hey! I didn't like the netbook edition, found it flashy, buggy and toy like, I prefer to use the desktop edition even on a netbook. I think it's not surprising that I had that experience given the much smaller user base and therefore less devs and users testing it. "Special" editions are always going to have that issue. A much better idea would be for the standard desktop edition to add --express by default on smaller resolution screens (assuming --express actually worked, which it doesn't, well it helps a bit).

I agree a respectful atmosphere is important but I also think that if a user's experience doesn't remotely match that promised by the advertising then they will be justifiably annoyed, respect needs to go both ways.