Yes, the shortcut bar has been replaced by a bunch of huge ugly space wasting buttons that you can't seem to turn off, in Evolution's continuing quest to follow Microsoft's lead in innovating new and shittier user interfaces as exactly as possible. Whoever it is at microsoft who invented the "activity center" approach to UI design needs to be dragged out into the street and shot, and then have their corpse dismembered and desecrated. Separating out the functions instead of having them all in one unmanageable tree was a great idea. Using a pile of ugly buttons the size of a barn to switch them was not. They're HUGE. They take up over a third of the available vertical space on an 800x600 screen! With tiny fonts! Thats a huge amount of screen real estate taken up by a relatively trivial feature. And no, not everyone has a 19 inch 1600x1200 LCD panel and good eyesight. Lots of people, especially those in the corporate offices that Evolution is supposedly ment for, are running at 1024x768 at BEST, with big fonts, on aging blurry old hand-me-down 14in monitors, and are over the age of 30. If your solution is to get a better monitor, I don't want to hear it. It doesn't even make sense conceptually. Its a big box of buttons. Tabs along the top of the tree would make more sense. Or a popup menu. Or icons on the toolbar. There's no reason to eat up so much goddamn space. It at the very least should be optional. If you have nice big monitors and want huge Fisher Price "My First Outlook Clone" buttons, so be it. But I don't want 'em. (This has been another Lerwick misdirected axe grinding rant.)