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

[Andrew Watkins]

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 :)

Don't people notice the memory usage of programs any longer, since 
evolution takes a lot more memory than thunderbird.

Evolution has 4 processes with a total virtual memory 470MB
Thunderbird has 3 process with a total virtual memory 140MB

And don't get me started on the exchange module will takes even more!

Stick with Firefox and Thunderbird.

Andrew