Mozilla Thunderbird

[Keith Irwin]

On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 20:42 -0500, R S Gill wrote:

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

I get most of my information from reading Planet Gnome, which means I
forget most of it as time goes on.

BUT, some things you can try:

Add a task due today, and set up an appointment in the calendar for
today, then click on your "clock" applet in the panel.  The task and
appointment should show up on the calendar that appears.  You can click
on the different days, and that day's appointments show up.

Also, try the "edit -> preferences -> mail preferences" and take a look
at the "automatic contacts" tab.  Along with automatically creating
entries in the address book when responding to mail, you can also
"periodically synchronize contact with buddy list".

There's an "address book lookup" applet you can add to your panel.  I
had to restart the panel to be able to type something.  You type and it
"autocompletes" and when you select the name, a dialog comes up and you
can "compose mail" to that person.

Check the beagle project to see the search stuff: nice looking,
anyway. :)

	http://gnome.org/projects/beagle/

I imagine if Gaim ever gets with it as far as Gnome is concerned, you
might be able to be notified of incoming email via instant message, or
have unread mail indicated as a number next to user names, or have that
user's icon "throb" if there are pending email messages, or whatever.

Keith

> 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.
> >
> >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
> >
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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.
> >>
> >>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
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