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

[Shawn Walker]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Darren Davis <ddavis at novell.com> wrote:
> Shawn Walker wrote:
>  > 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.
>  >
>
>  By that same argument then why aren't you choosing Epiphany over
>  Firefox?  Personally, I think Firefox and Thunderbird are far more
>  accepted and used than Epiphany or Evolution on GNOME.

The discussion was about Evolution; not Epiphany.

The same argument applies :)

However, FireFox 3 is supposed to integrate much better with GNOME, so
that complaint will be addressed.

Thunderbird, however, is still far behind and is not moving towards
"being GNOME integrated" as far as I know.

For example, appointments, etc. in Evolution will show up on the GNOME
calendar, and so on.

-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/

"To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." -
Robert Orben