On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Sebastien Roy <Sebastien.Roy at sun.com> wrote: > 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.
While you could probably leave the update notifications in, I don't think it would be helpful. That self-update mechanism only works on Windows/Mac because the Thunderbird folks are the ones distributing the package. I don't think they'll be distributing ips packages ;) I suppose though, that the update mechanism could be modified to check for an updated package in the repositories and then offer to upgrade by calling ips to do it. -- 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
