[OT] Comments: Evolution - Sylpheed Claws
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
m3freak at rogers.com
Sat Dec 10 19:12:42 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-07-12 at 13:39 -0500, David Cary Hart wrote:
> <rant>Evo has been my mail client since RH9. It has become increasingly
> ponderous and bloated while usability has diminished. The offering in
> FC5 will be even worse. For example, you can no longer choose how you
> want to forward a message (inline, quoted or forward) except by default
> configuration.
That sounds bad. What's going to be the default?
> The action set provided by filters remains limited. The
> toolbar remains uncustomizable and the menus have been re-arranged and
> reduced. In short, Novell is accomplishing the objective of creating a
> MS Outlook clone - warts and all.</rant>
If Novell is just making a free version of Outlook, then Evolution is
headed for the garbage heap. There are things about Outlook that I
don't like, but for the most part it's really nice. I sincerely hope it
doesn't go to crap.
> The good news is that this has resulted in my changing to Sylpheed
> Claws (Fedora Extras). Very fast, stable and light, it is incredibly
> flexible and feature rich.
I didn't see any mention of a Calendar on the Sylpheed-Claws website.
You spiked my interest, so I installed it anyway. Sure enough, there
isn't a calendar, or even a task list.
So, what do you use for the missing bits?
I like Evolution because of the integrated Calender and Tasks. I'd have
a hard time switching to Sylpheed-Claws, or any other app, that didn't
at least have all three (mail, calender and tasks).
Thanks for the "rant". And, I must say that Sylpheed-Claws is indeed
nice.
Regards,
Ranbir
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Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
Systems Aligned Inc.
www.systemsaligned.com
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