[DC LoCo] Evolution Killed My GNOME

[N.C. Weber]

Ah, but to clarify, I've discovered that you cannot remove the graphical app without killing gnome-panel, gnome-control-center, all indicator functions, ubuntu-netbook and ubuntu-desktop.  Conversely, I can't install any one of those things without it also installing Evolution, which I don't want, Empathy, which I also don't want, Banshee, which I additionally don't want, and Gwibber, which I really don't want because it uses 95% of both cores of my processor and brings my poor netbook to a slow crawl.  There's just no way around it.  I did reinstall evolution-dataserver and evolution-dataserver-common.  That didn't do anything noticeable.  Certainly no return of the clock.  I'm guessing that requires indicator-apps' return.

I don't really use indicators, so no loss there. And Unity pretty much makes up for anything missing in gnome-panel. I don't even know what ubuntu-desktop does. I'm certainly not missing it, whatever it is.  Other than no more indicators and no clock, there's nothing noticeably different about my Ubuntu.  As for the clock issue, I'm compensating with Cairo Clock.  Analog too, so win-win.


-----Original Message-----
>From: Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com>
>Sent: Jun 7, 2011 11:02 AM
>To: Ubuntu Linux DC LoCo Team Mailing List <ubuntu-us-dc at lists.ubuntu.com>
>Subject: Re: [DC LoCo] Evolution Killed My GNOME
>
>On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:36 AM, N.C. Weber <ncweber00 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> I was thinking about saving space on my system, so I've been removing apps
>> the I never use.  One application I decided to kill was Evolution.  I never
>> use it.  In fact, I hate the thing.  So, I went in to uninstall it.  Lo and
>> behold, uninstalling Evolution also kills Gnome-applets, Gnome-panel, and
>> Gnome-control-center.
>
>Not if you leave in evolution-data-server but remove the graphical app
>
>> Normally, this wouldn't bother me as I'm dedicated to
>> Unity (love the thing), but it means I have no clock on my top bar.
>
>The clock uses evoution-data-server to display your appointments in
>the calendar drop-out.
>
>> Oh, and out of curiosity, I quick logged into Ubuntu Classic and there's
>> nothing there. No panels, no menus, no indicators. Nothing but wallpaper and
>> a poor, lonely mouse pointer. Even Alt+F2 doesn't work. Had to shut down by
>> pressing the power button. Freaky.
>
>Of course alt+f2 doesn't work if you don't have a panel. It's part of
>gnome-panel.
>
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>Mackenzie Morgan
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