Comment 27 for bug 410220

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