Mozilla Thunderbird

[Keith Irwin]

On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 18:22 -0500, R S Gill wrote:

> How about making Mozilla Thunderbird the default e-mail program in Ubuntu.

I think the problem with this is that evolution is transforming itself
into a user data integration platform for the Gnome desktop.  For
instance, it's moving toward integrating with Gaim, various applets
(such as the clock being able to display tasks, appointments, meetings),
proposed notifications depending on email (or pim) "events" and so on.

Infrastructure applications like beagle and dashboard work best if
there's a way to share all this data between applications.  You can see
a lot of this if you're running Hoary, and I guess a lot of the
instability is the integration is a bit of a tricky deal (not to mention
evolution being in, ahem, flux).

Perhaps a solution is to develop a way to make evolution data server
also hook into Sunbird and Thunderbird data sources and vice-versa?  But
then this breaks the cross-platform uniformity goal of those projects.

I'm not sure that such integration is for everyone, but it's at least a
nice feature to turn down, rather than want and never get.

So, seems to me, that evolution is becoming an integral part of the
desktop experience, and my guess is that Ubuntu will want to encourage
that.

Keith

> Evolution is very resouce intensive (frequently just sits there 
> "Formating message") and, at least for me, crashes often.  In addition, 
> spam filtering takes a long time.
> 
> Just from an ease of use and performance perspective, why not default to 
> THunderbird instead.
> 
> For those who really want/need it, Evolution is but and apt-get away.
> 
> Gill
>