On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Mark Phalan <mbp at opensolaris.org> wrote: > > > > Why is thunderbird given higher visibility (by being in the panel) over > > evolution - the default gnome mail app? > > > > Why do we ship two mail clients which cover basically the same > > functionality? I'd draw the parallel here between epiphany - the default > > gnome web browser and firefox. > > That has always flabbergasted me as well. > > Most users are going to be more familiar with Evolution (since it is > "like MS Outlook") than Thunderbird. > > Though I suppose that depends on whether you are talking about Linux > users or users from other platforms.
If exchange integration matters, then evolution wins. (Mind you, it doesn't currently work against Exchange 2007, so I'm without an adequate email client at work. Hopefully that will get sorted soon.) And in many businesses, you have to use exchange :-( Something that's just occurred to me, though - why is the mail client a launcher on the panel? I use panel items for things I launch multiple copies of (or multiple windows of) - so terminals and firefox windows. I only have one mail client window ever running, and it gets started when I log in, so why have mail as a panel launcher? -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
