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

[Shawn Walker]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:
>  > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Mark Phalan <mbp at opensolaris.org> wrote:
>  >  >
>
> >  >  Why is thunderbird given higher visibility (by being in the panel) over
>  >  >  evolution - the default gnome mail app?
>  >  >
>  >  >  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.
>  >
>  >  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.
>
>  If exchange integration matters, then evolution wins. (Mind you, it doesn't
>  currently work against Exchange 2007, so I'm without an adequate email
>  client at work. Hopefully that will get sorted soon.) And in many businesses,
>  you have to use exchange :-(

Yep; that's another thing to consider when promoting a particular
application for a platform.

>  Something that's just occurred to me, though - why is the mail client
>  a launcher on the panel? I use panel items for things I launch multiple
>  copies of (or multiple windows of) - so terminals and firefox windows.
>  I only have one mail client window ever running, and it gets started
>  when I log in, so why have mail as a panel launcher?

I guess so it's visible right away, since email and web are probably
the most frequently used things for network-connected users.

-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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"To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." -
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