Right. In order to replace Mozilla, you need a browser, a mail client, an irc client, etc. But you're forgetting that we already ship the other pieces. If we throw in Firefox, you have your browser, we ship a mail client already (Evolution), we have X-Chat and GAIM for IRC. The
For some users like me, evolution is unacceptably slow and unusable as it takes several minutes to read ANY MAIL after starting when connecting to my IMAP account. All versions continue to lock up and require killing periodically. I am also extremely annoyed by its brain dead clipboard behavior.
I prefer to use thunderbird because it is almost instant-fast in loading my IMAP folders, and its clipboard behavior is not brain dead.
I realize that evolution is fine for most users, especially if they use local folders. Many large IMAP folders however is just too painful to use with evolution.
Warren Togami wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx