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

[Shawn Walker]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Sebastien Roy <Sebastien.Roy at sun.com> wrote:
> 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.

Bugs should be fixed; not used as a reason to choose other software.

Evolution is well-integrated into GNOME; Thunderbird is not.

See my previous reply to Glen.

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Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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