Mozilla Thunderbird

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 01:26:28 -0800, Keith Irwin <keith at keithirwin.com> wrote:
> In the end, what the Gnome folks are trying to do, I think, is make the
> desktop easy to use and that goal drives their technology choices.  If
> all official gnome apps interact with contact information in the same
> way, then that's a big win for users. 

This is a really important point. I wouldn't want to lose centralised
handling of contact information, which might happen by making
Evolution optional. Now, if Thunderbird could optionally use the same
contact information so that my Palm, Gaim and Thunderbird contacts
were all in sync -- that would be a *huge* win for useability (and I'm
not positive this isn't already available through some plugin). Get
all that synchronized with my gmail contacts and I'd be in nirvana.

In my experience, the central gnome contact database (evolution data
server) is *almost* there, but breaks with fairly large Palm databases
(several hundred contacts and calendar items). I believe that's partly
a gpilotd issue, but it has kept me from taking advantage of the
subsystem.

Thunderbird, on the other hand, is off by itself in another data
universe entirely.

-Eamonn