On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Andrew Watkins <andrew at dcs.bbk.ac.uk> 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 :) > > Don't people notice the memory usage of programs any longer, since > evolution takes a lot more memory than thunderbird.
Memory usage is dependent on a person's usage pattern, size of mailbox, etc. So those numbers don't mean much without some context. > Evolution has 4 processes with a total virtual memory 470MB > Thunderbird has 3 process with a total virtual memory 140MB Thunderbird also has significantly less functionality than Evolution. So that isn't a fair comparison. -- 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
