On 12 Mar 2008, at 20:28, Sebastien Roy wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: >> That has always flabbergasted me as well. >> >> Most users are going to be more familiar with Evolution (since it is >> "like MS Outlook") than Thunderbird. >> >> Though I suppose that depends on whether you are talking about Linux >> users or users from other platforms. > > Speaking for myself only, I used Evolution for years on Solaris, and I > dropped it in favor Thunderbird due to stability issues. Evolution > was > at the time simply too slow (I have a huge number of nested IMAP > folders > with a huge number of messages), and had too many important bugs > related > to both stability and usability that no-one was willing to fix. I > haven't used it since (it has been a few years), so maybe that has > changed since then. I just did a quick tour again just now, and it > doesn't look like much has changed. It took over 45 seconds to load a > single small ascii-only message buried in a large IMAP folder, and > four > minutes for the frozen Evolution main window to disappear after I did > File->Quit.
Interesting. I use evolution as my main mail client and it does a fairly good job for me. Looks like it should be improving further in the next version ( gnome 2.22 - I believe the next version of Indiana will have this): http://blogs.gnome.org/sragavan/2008/03/11/evolution-222-released/ Maybe they fixed your issues. Anyway, the main point I was trying to make was that we should choose one OR the other. There is a huge functional overlap between the two programs. It's not very user-friendly pushing both. -Mark _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
