On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 11:48 +1000, Jens Petersen wrote: > I am writing this mail as a long time Fedora user, not so much as a > Fedora developer, so feel free to flame away, etc: though I am not > really trying to start painful flame-war here... > > For a long time (actually as long as I can remember;) I wondered why > Evolution was our default Mail application (MUA). I was a long time > user of Emacs MUAs, so I feel my background is fairly neutral - but I > have never been able to use Evolution for long. These days I use > Thunderbird since alas I gradually found Emacs too slow for imap. I am > not married to Thunderbird but it mostly does what I want it and it is > pretty stable at least Anecdotal evidence... here is some anecdotal counter-evicence: I've used Emacs MUAs in the past too, but have been using Evolution without any big issues for many years now. And in my experience, people who tend to have a problem with their mail client switch from evo to thunderbird and back in quick succession, because the alternative is even worse... > So what are the arguments for keeping Evolution as the default Mail > application in Fedora? This question seems particularly relevant now > with things like the Lightning calendar extension and the launch of > Mozilla Messaging. Evolution is different enough from regular GNOME > applications to be basically a different platform, and from the > development point of view it is expensive to have another platform to > maintain. I don't get this argument at all. How is Evolution being a different platform a problem, but Thunderbird being even more different is not ? Also, a backing organization is not necessarily a guarantee for a successful mail client. Otherwise, we would all be using chandler by now... Matthias -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
