[indiana-discuss] Indiana desktop UI spec - early draft
Calum Benson
Calum.Benson at Sun.COM
Thu Mar 13 08:44:53 PDT 2008
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 16:56 -0400, Sebastien Roy wrote:
> Shawn Walker wrote:
> > For example, if I have to choose between a mail client that is
> > well-integrated into the platform (i.e. shows my appointments on the
> > GNOME calendar, etc.), but runs slower, and one that runs faster, but
> > is barely integrated, that's a poor choice to force me to make as a
> > user.
>
> Well said, I completely agree with that. I can only hope that the
> Evolution developers are in tune with their user base enough to be able
> to know if their users are having to make that choice.
They're definitely getting better; in the past, there were certain, er,
'personalities' in the Evolution team that made one reluctant even to
file bugs regarding certain parts of its functionality. IMHO it has a
rather friendlier bunch of maintainers these days though.
Cheeri,
Calum.
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