[desktop-discuss] [indiana-discuss] Indiana desktop UI spec - early draft

[Sebastien Roy]

Shawn Walker wrote:
> That has always flabbergasted me as well.
> 
> Most users are going to be more familiar with Evolution (since it is
> "like MS Outlook") than Thunderbird.
> 
> Though I suppose that depends on whether you are talking about Linux
> users or users from other platforms.

Speaking for myself only, I used Evolution for years on Solaris, and I 
dropped it in favor Thunderbird due to stability issues.  Evolution was 
at the time simply too slow (I have a huge number of nested IMAP folders 
with a huge number of messages), and had too many important bugs related 
to both stability and usability that no-one was willing to fix.  I 
haven't used it since (it has been a few years), so maybe that has 
changed since then.  I just did a quick tour again just now, and it 
doesn't look like much has changed.  It took over 45 seconds to load a 
single small ascii-only message buried in a large IMAP folder, and four 
minutes for the frozen Evolution main window to disappear after I did 
File->Quit.

Thunderbird on the other hand is rock-solid, very fast for my workload, 
easy to use, and as Glenn mentioned already, more widely used.

-Seb