Re: Another round of default app discussion

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> > > On 14 Mar 2016 2:20 p.m., "Michael Catanzaro" < mcatanzaro@xxxxxxxxx >
> > > wrote:
> > > > We do need to change it to launch GNOME Calendar, though... once that
> > > > moves into core.
> > > 
> > > Presumably only if Evolution is also dropped, otherwise there'd be two
> > > calendar apps installed.
> > 
> > I filed https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=762329 but it was
> > WONTFIX'ed.
> 
> I concur; I'd not want Evolution broken because a shiny new app duplicates
> some of its functionality.

Why exactly would it be broken?

> > But as both apps use the same backend, this isn't a big problem in any
> > case.
> 
> Back end isn't the issue, it's bad UX have two apps do the same thing.
> 
> One can specify a default calendar app anyway, so I guess no changes would
> need to be made to Shell, but as long as Evolution is installed it makes
> sense to use its calendar.

Except that Evolution's calendar isn't as usable as GNOME Calendar hopes to be.
Which is why we're going to be replacing Evolution's functionality piecemeal.
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