Sebastien Roy 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. > > -Seb > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > Afaik, its auto update feature doesn't work, Mozilla only supports Linux, Mac, and Windows officially. They don't care about us and have been giving us the brunt of work for a long time, their cold shoulder should result in us dumping it completely. (Only allowing it via a download using ips)
James
