[caiman-discuss] contents for slim install

[Dave Miner]

Shawn Walker wrote:
> On 20/08/07, Dave Miner <Dave.Miner at sun.com> wrote:
>> Peter Tribble wrote:
>>> On 8/19/07, Shawn Walker <binarycrusader at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 18/08/07, Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Is evolution included as part of gnome anyway? Certainly for
>>>> http://www.gnome.org/start/2.8/notes/rnwhatsnew.html
>>>>
>>>> "Applications
>>>> Evolution
>>>>
>>>> GNOME 2.8 now includes Evolution 2.0, the integrated Email and
>>>> Groupware client."
>>> I know that. The question is whether the gnome that's going to be part
>>> of slim install includes evolution, or whether it's being dropped in
>>> favour of thunderbird. (Given a choice of the two, I would go for
>>> evolution - and it's also the smaller option.)
>>>
>>> (Especially as the list of packages that Sanjay posted didn't
>>> include any evolution packages.)
>>>
>> Based on space constraints, we were figuring on including only one or
>> the other initially, and thunderbird seems more popular.
> 
> I would question that assertion personally, and I would also find it
> odd that the choice would be Thunderbird instead of Evolution given
> that Evolution is part of GNOME now.
> 

A very unscientific sampling I did indicated there were more Thunderbird 
users than Evolution (and yes, I was part of the sample).  The thing I 
see is that if you don't use Gnome, you don't use Evolution, whereas 
Thunderbird is used across other desktops and platforms, including 
Windows, so has that going for it.

If we can come up with better data, then that would be useful, I'm just 
unaware of it.  Just continuing to state your opinion isn't going to 
change mine, though.

Dave