Calum Benson wrote: > On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 19:09 +0100, Mark Phalan wrote: > >> Why is thunderbird given higher visibility (by being in the panel) over >> evolution - the default gnome mail app? > > Basically, this is a hangover from JDS in Solaris-- based on whatever > factors they were looking at, product marketing decided that Thunderbird > was going to be the default mail client in JDS. > > There's no reason AFAIK that we have to do the same in Indiana, and > speaking as a long-time Evolution user I'd personally be more than happy > to make Thunderbird an optional download :)
Would making Thunderbird an optional download allow us to enable its automatic update feature, or does that just plain not work on Solaris? If Thunderbird can be made to automatically update itself like it does on MacOS and Windows, then I think I'd also be happy to see it as a download. -Seb
