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

[Shawn Walker]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Sebastien Roy <Sebastien.Roy at sun.com> 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.

While you could probably leave the update notifications in, I don't
think it would be helpful.

That self-update mechanism only works on Windows/Mac because the
Thunderbird folks are the ones distributing the package.

I don't think they'll be distributing ips packages ;)

I suppose though, that the update mechanism could be modified to check
for an updated package in the repositories and then offer to upgrade
by calling ips to do it.

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Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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