F7 KDE spin

[Gilboa Davara]

On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 18:23 +0100, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
> On 1/9/07, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > I know. I was referring to Evolution alone drawing in most of GNOME as
> > dependencies. Now I personally don't have a problem with having to install
> > GNOME libraries (I install whatever (appropriately licensed) libraries programs
> > I want to use or even just try out require), but I'm not convinced Evolution is
> > a good reason to include them. (In fact, it seems to be the most hated default
> > app in Fedora judging from the comments on the mailing lists, some GNOME users
> > are looking for an alternative too, some even switched to Kontact or KMail.)
> 
> I'll back the idea for not including evolution in KDE spin.
> Hmm having evolution on a kde spin isn't really a kde spin.
> Kontact is already among core kde packages why should the heck be a
> replacement for that ? at least evolution is being supplied on the
> repositories.
> As far are firefox and openoffice are concerned, I'm ok with them, but
> not evolution.
> 
> example:
> Kontact communicates very well with kwallet for password storage. Now
> if we include evolution in the kde spin, should we be working to
> provide such feature for evolution?
> 
> Chitlesh

Having evolution in the KDE spin doesn't mean that it has to be the
default group-ware client or even installed by default.

As weird as it sounds, I want it in -because- it is so d*mn big.
According to the Fedora ML usage stats, Evo holds the #1 spot - making
it reasonable to guess that many of them are KDE users.
Asking them to download 100s of MB during the installation is a mistake.

If/when kmail gets a better groupware/exchange integration, it'll be
possible to drop evolution.

- Gilboa