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

[James Cornell]

Sebastien Roy 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 :)
>>     
>
> Would making Thunderbird an optional download allow us to enable its 
> automatic update feature, or does that just plain not work on Solaris? 
> If Thunderbird can be made to automatically update itself like it does 
> on MacOS and Windows, then I think I'd also be happy to see it as a 
> download.
>
> -Seb
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Afaik, its auto update feature doesn't work, Mozilla only supports 
Linux, Mac, and Windows officially.  They don't care about us and have 
been giving us the brunt of work for a long time, their cold shoulder 
should result in us dumping it completely.  (Only allowing it via a 
download using ips)

James