Mozilla Thunderbird

[R S Gill]

Hi Kevin,

I am running Hoary.

I'm just curious but could you please elaborate more on examples of this 
intergration.

I admit that I used Evolution primarily for accessing my IMAP mail accounts.

Gill

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Keith Irwin wrote:

>On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 18:22 -0500, R S Gill wrote:
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>>How about making Mozilla Thunderbird the default e-mail program in Ubuntu.
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>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.
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>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).
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>Keith
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>>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.
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>>Just from an ease of use and performance perspective, why not default to 
>>THunderbird instead.
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>>For those who really want/need it, Evolution is but and apt-get away.
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>>Gill
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