Disappointing Evolution

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 06:20 +0800, John wrote:

> On seeing this I decided to take a look at Evolution on Warty.
> 
> I found it disappointing.
> 
> 1 I could not see how to read news.

This is a little less than intuitive. Create a new mail account, and for
the server type choose "Usenet".

> 2 I could not see how to get weather reports.
> 
> 3 I could not see how to get RSS feeds.
> 
> 2 & 3 are the features I use most in Evolution. Mail-reading is a 
> distant third and I don't use the others at all.

The Ximian employee who developed this code left some time ago, and it
was never ported to Evolution 2. It still exists in the source code, but
isn't compiled - it would need a small amount of work to fix up. The
main reason that nobody has bothered so far is that alternatives exist
for both tasks.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org