On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Darren Davis <ddavis at novell.com> wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Sebastien Roy <Sebastien.Roy at sun.com> > wrote: > > > >> Shawn Walker wrote: > >> > 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. > >> > >> Speaking for myself only, I used Evolution for years on Solaris, and I > >> dropped it in favor Thunderbird due to stability issues. Evolution was > >> at the time simply too slow (I have a huge number of nested IMAP folders > >> with a huge number of messages), and had too many important bugs related > >> to both stability and usability that no-one was willing to fix. I > >> haven't used it since (it has been a few years), so maybe that has > >> changed since then. I just did a quick tour again just now, and it > >> doesn't look like much has changed. It took over 45 seconds to load a > >> single small ascii-only message buried in a large IMAP folder, and four > >> minutes for the frozen Evolution main window to disappear after I did > >> File->Quit. > >> > > > > Bugs should be fixed; not used as a reason to choose other software. > > > > Evolution is well-integrated into GNOME; Thunderbird is not. > > > > By that same argument then why aren't you choosing Epiphany over > Firefox? Personally, I think Firefox and Thunderbird are far more > accepted and used than Epiphany or Evolution on GNOME.
The discussion was about Evolution; not Epiphany. The same argument applies :) However, FireFox 3 is supposed to integrate much better with GNOME, so that complaint will be addressed. Thunderbird, however, is still far behind and is not moving towards "being GNOME integrated" as far as I know. For example, appointments, etc. in Evolution will show up on the GNOME calendar, and so on. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
