Mozilla Thunderbird
Romeyn Prescott
prescor at digirom.potsdam.edu
Sun Jan 2 03:22:31 UTC 2005
At 6:16 PM -0800 1/1/05, Keith Irwin scribbled:
>I'm not a good apologist for this sort of stuff, but I think that what
>the evolution team is trying to do is commoditize, or refactor, a bit of
>functionality. In other words, the PIM stuff is a database, with the
>email, IM, or other clients as user interfaces above that. I'm thinking
>it's what Gnome folks want in their goal of making things easier.
>People seem to like that sort of thing in the Mac UI, don't they?
>
Yes, the Mac's integration among apps is nice. Mail and Address Book
integrate, iTunes/iPhoto/iMovie/iDVD all have the same basic
interface and share their databases with each other to some degree.
Your iPhotos are available in the Desktop/Screensaver prefs, etc.
But if you don't want to use any of that, you don't have to. For
example, I still use Eudora because I have yet to find another MUA
with a comparable Search feature. I regularly search for multiple
things in my vast archive of E-mail: like a message with the word
"special" in the subject, "smith" in the From: header, and the phrase
"short bus" in the subject. And we use Meeting Maker here where I
work, so that is my calendar and address book. I manage just fine.
All that other stuff comes with the Mac OS, but I don't have to USE
it. I can even throw it all away if I want.
Likewise, if I don't want Evolution, I uninstall it, load up
Thunderbird, and I'm off and running.
...ROMeyn
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