Peter Tribble wrote: > 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? > >
I would have to agree about the use pattern you describe. I tend to change my launchers in just the way you describe and have applications like Terminal that I find I launch quite often and remove things that get launched only once at login. It keeps the panel from becoming cluttered and I also agree that the placement of the launchers are too close together. Darren
