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[Daniel Fitzgibbons]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> wrote:

>
> On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 11:48 +1000, Jens Petersen wrote:
> > I am writing this mail as a long time Fedora user, not so much as a
> > Fedora developer, so feel free to flame away, etc: though I am not
> > really trying to start painful flame-war here...
> >
> > For a long time (actually as long as I can remember;) I wondered why
> > Evolution was our default Mail application (MUA).  I was a long time
> > user of Emacs MUAs, so I feel my background is fairly neutral - but I
> > have never been able to use Evolution for long.  These days I use
> > Thunderbird since alas I gradually found Emacs too slow for imap.  I am
> > not married to Thunderbird but it mostly does what I want it and it is
> > pretty stable at least
>
> Anecdotal evidence... here is some anecdotal counter-evicence: I've used
> Emacs MUAs in the past too, but have been using Evolution without any
> big issues for many years now. And in my experience, people who tend to
> have a problem with their mail client switch from evo to thunderbird and
> back in quick succession, because the alternative is even worse...
>
> > So what are the arguments for keeping Evolution as the default Mail
> > application in Fedora?  This question seems particularly relevant now
> > with things like the Lightning calendar extension and the launch of
> > Mozilla Messaging.  Evolution is different enough from regular GNOME
> > applications to be basically a different platform, and from the
> > development point of view it is expensive to have another platform to
> > maintain.
>
> I don't get this argument at all. How is Evolution being a different
> platform a problem, but Thunderbird being even more different is not ?
>
> Also, a backing organization is not necessarily a guarantee for a
> successful mail client. Otherwise, we would all be using chandler by
> now...
>
>
> Matthias
>

It's not a problem that Evolution isn't really a part of the gnome
platform... it's just the most common argument to keep it is "It's part of
gnome", which is what he was refuting.  Personally, I couldn't care less...
I use gmail and no desktop-based client I have used can match it.  But FWIW,
I have tried the major players for email clients and have found Thunderbird
to be a much more pleasing to use than Evolution, but this is all
anecdotal.  If you're comfortable replacing Epiphany with Firefox, I don't
see any reason why you couldn't do the same with Evolution, should people
really want it.

--Daniel



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