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

[Darren Davis]

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.

Later,

Darren


> See my previous reply to Glen.
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