On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Sebastien Roy <Sebastien.Roy at sun.com> wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: > > Please don't take this as directed at you: > > > > Bugs should never be a reason to excuse promoting an application. The > > point is that GNOME as a platform has chosen Evolution. > ... > > > To me, this is about the platform. > > > > If you choose the GNOME platform, you get everything that is part of it. > > > > If part of the platform is deficient, either ship it, or don't. > > I don't disagree with your ideology, I was just speaking as an end-user > explaining why I don't use Evolution, and why I'm not as flabbergasted > as you are. Perhaps that input can be used by people who contribute to > Evolution to make it a better application that people will actually like > to use. I'm not saying that it shouldn't be the default or not be more > prevalent on the desktop.
I didn't read it that way, believe me. I just think that bugs shouldn't be used as criteria for evaluating a product. Popularity alone shouldn't be sufficient to choose a mail client. Usability, integration with the platform, features that meet specific business needs (i.e. exchange functionality) are the most important in my mind. > > Pushing users towards Thunderbird is pushing them towards an inferior > > experience integration-wise. > > I don't disagree with that either. Be that as it may, I as an end-user, > will not use a piece of software regardless of how hard it's "pushed" > towards me unless it fits my needs (stability being one of them). I'm > sure I'm not the only end-user who generally feels that way. Take it or > leave it, it makes no difference to me. I'll keep using software that I > like and keep not using software that I don't like, regardless of what's > on the top panel. :-) I want to be clear that I'm not against choice here. I just want to be certain that when the choice is made to use a piece of software because of one reason or another, that users aren't left having to make poor choices. For example, if I have to choose between a mail client that is well-integrated into the platform (i.e. shows my appointments on the GNOME calendar, etc.), but runs slower, and one that runs faster, but is barely integrated, that's a poor choice to force me to make as a user. -- 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
