On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com> 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 :-(
Yep; that's another thing to consider when promoting a particular application for a platform. > 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 guess so it's visible right away, since email and web are probably the most frequently used things for network-connected users. -- 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
