Evolution becoming unusable.

[Matt Galvin]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:36:37 -0500, Matt Galvin <matt.t.galvin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 13:29:23 +0100, Matthew Thomas <mpt at myrealbox.com> wrote:
> > Matt Galvin wrote:
> >  >...
> > > Yes, I actually completely stopped using evo b/c it is so unstable.
> > > Not just on Ubuntu, but on any distro. It is also very unintuitive
> > > IMHO. I would love to see some better email app be the Gnome default,
> > > but alas ximian(novel) are tied to Gnome... but thats another story...
> > > and I don't know of any other "Groupware" app that could be used.
> > >...
> >
> > IMO it's not Evolution's primary goal to be intuitive; it's Evolution's
> > primary goal to allow migration from Windows, by taking advantage of
> > what Outlook users have already learned. (Roughly, Evolution is to
> > Outlook what Firefox is to Internet Explorer.) And that's an important job.
> 
> Agreed, I am not trying to bash evo or anything, its nice to have and
> "Outlook Replacement" type app that also has a corporate backing b/c
> that is what may corp users need.
> 
> > If anyone wants to develop an e-mail client designed for maximum
> > Gnomeness (the e-mail equivalent of Epiphany), I'd be interested in
> > helping design it (as I am with Epiphany).
> 
> Maybe I should not complain and just start making one, this would be
> nice :) We'll see how much free time I have... sadly not much at the
> moment :(
> 
> On that note what do people think about Mono, my C is a little rusty
> at the moment(I hope to get back into more C hacking soon), but I know
> Java well and doing something like this in Mono/C# is not a far leap
> for me. Maybe I should start a seperate thread for this... before we
> get to far OT.

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