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

[Mark Phalan]

On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 15:12 +0000, Calum Benson wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 19:09 +0100, Mark Phalan wrote:
> 
> > Why is thunderbird given higher visibility (by being in the panel) over
> > evolution - the default gnome mail app?
> 
> Basically, this is a hangover from JDS in Solaris-- based on whatever
> factors they were looking at, product marketing decided that Thunderbird
> was going to be the default mail client in JDS.
> 
> There's no reason AFAIK that we have to do the same in Indiana, and
> speaking as a long-time Evolution user I'd personally be more than happy
> to make Thunderbird an optional download :)

Me too :) 

> 
> > 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.
> 
> Point taken, although to be honest, pretty much all the major Linux
> distros prefer Firefox to Epiphany as their primary browser too.
> 
> I'd be very happy to see Epiphany available one way or another, as it's
> a slick little browser. IIRC we had a few nasty problems trying to build
> it on OpenSolaris the last time we tried, though (possibly due to its
> recent switch to WebKit... I don't remember, though).

I'd love to see epiphany (using webkit) available as well. Its probably
not ready to replace firefox but as an option in the repository it would
be great.

-Mark