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

[Shawn Walker]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Andrew Watkins <andrew at dcs.bbk.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
>  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 :)
>
>  Don't people notice the memory usage of programs any longer, since
>  evolution takes a lot more memory than thunderbird.

Memory usage is dependent on a person's usage pattern, size of
mailbox, etc. So those numbers don't mean much without some context.

>  Evolution has 4 processes with a total virtual memory 470MB
>  Thunderbird has 3 process with a total virtual memory 140MB

Thunderbird also has significantly less functionality than Evolution.

So that isn't a fair comparison.

-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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