On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It's not a problem that Evolution isn't really a part of the gnome platform... it's just the most common argument to keep it is "It's part of gnome", which is what he was refuting. Personally, I couldn't care less... I use gmail and no desktop-based client I have used can match it. But FWIW, I have tried the major players for email clients and have found Thunderbird to be a much more pleasing to use than Evolution, but this is all anecdotal. If you're comfortable replacing Epiphany with Firefox, I don't see any reason why you couldn't do the same with Evolution, should people really want it.
--Daniel
Anecdotal evidence... here is some anecdotal counter-evicence: I've used
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
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...
I don't get this argument at all. How is Evolution being a different
> 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.
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
It's not a problem that Evolution isn't really a part of the gnome platform... it's just the most common argument to keep it is "It's part of gnome", which is what he was refuting. Personally, I couldn't care less... I use gmail and no desktop-based client I have used can match it. But FWIW, I have tried the major players for email clients and have found Thunderbird to be a much more pleasing to use than Evolution, but this is all anecdotal. If you're comfortable replacing Epiphany with Firefox, I don't see any reason why you couldn't do the same with Evolution, should people really want it.
--Daniel
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