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

[Darren Davis]

Peter Tribble wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Mark Phalan <mbp at opensolaris.org> wrote:
>>  >
>>  >  Why is thunderbird given higher visibility (by being in the panel) over
>>  >  evolution - the default gnome mail app?
>>  >
>>  >  Why do we ship two mail clients which cover basically the same
>>  >  functionality? I'd draw the parallel here between epiphany - the default
>>  >  gnome web browser and firefox.
>>
>>  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.
>>     
>
> If exchange integration matters, then evolution wins. (Mind you, it doesn't
> currently work against Exchange 2007, so I'm without an adequate email
> client at work. Hopefully that will get sorted soon.) And in many businesses,
> you have to use exchange :-(
>
> Something that's just occurred to me, though - why is the mail client
> a launcher on the panel? I use panel items for things I launch multiple
> copies of (or multiple windows of) - so terminals and firefox windows.
> I only have one mail client window ever running, and it gets started
> when I log in, so why have mail as a panel launcher?
>
>   

I would have to agree about the use pattern you describe.  I tend to 
change my launchers in just the way you describe and have applications 
like Terminal that I find I launch quite often and remove things that 
get launched only once at login.  It keeps the panel from becoming 
cluttered and I also agree that the placement of the launchers are too 
close together.

Darren