Move Evolution to Extras?

[Lamont Peterson]

On Wednesday 27 December 2006 11:20am, David Nielsen wrote:
> ons, 27 12 2006 kl. 09:09 -0800, skrev Sean Bruno:
> > Isn't Evolution sort of, kind of, maintained by our fair friends over at
> > Novell/Suse ?  Does that have anything to do with this "Death to Evo"
> > thread?

As I understood the state of things, all (or nearly all) of the developers who 
originally worked on Evolution (i.e., the Ximian guys) left it nearly 2 years 
ago.  That was part of the problem, that Evolution was almost abandoned for a 
while and then some other people stepped up.  I could be wrong about that, 
but that's what I remember hearing.

> > The only over riding reason to _still_ use Evolution is to interface
> > directly to a MS Exchange server.

See below.

> > I happen to use it out of habit, not because it's better/worse.  I
> > perceive the mail filtering rules to be easier to configure and more
> > robust than Thunderbird, but that may be _MY_ perception.

I think that's an excellent reason for choosing which of the apps for a given 
task to use.  First, does it get t he job done and if not, is there an app 
then gets closer?  Next, which app is the most comfortable for me.  
Personally, I like to get my work done.  Familiarity with an app let's me 
work more quickly.  I don't think about, "How do I do [something] with this 
app?"  I just do it.

> As much as I absolutely loath Evolution I tend to agree, the filtering
> and the way it displays threads seem much more natural than any other
> mailer I've tried. That doesn't stop the massive amount of unrelated
> suckage though, like the infamous #217567 wherein Evolution entirely
> refuses to send mail for no apparent reason or the many other quirks.
>
> Evolution currently is the best of a lot of bad choices, it would be
> nice if somewhere down the line we could find a replacement, especially
> one that didn't come bundled with all this groupware functionality all
> in one app. A simple mailer which can inter-operate with something like
> Contacts and Dates to make a nicely separated PIM suite which shares
> information would be ideal in my mind. Anything else seems to be begging
> for disaster to me, complexity breeds the kind of madness Evolution has
> become.

Sounds like KMail, KAddressBook and kdepim to me.

Of course, you meant that "Evolution currently is the best of a lot of bad 
choices" for Gnome, right?

Oh, and BTW, these apps can integrate with all sorts of servers like Exchange, 
Groupwise, etc.
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Lamont Peterson <lamont at gurulabs.com>
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