Evolution

[Matthew Carpenter]

On Friday 20 July 2007, scott wrote:
> Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> > Curious, why did you move from Kubuntu?
>
> First it was the licencing issues over Qt I found out about, but then I
> also noticed a lot more work is put into Ubuntu over Kubuntu.

Hmmm.. interesting.  I've not given the qt license much thought in many years.  
It works for me.  Ubuntu is the base.  Kubuntu was created afterwards, and 
has much work put into it, typically by different people.  Of course Ubuntu 
gets more work, it's the foundation.  Kubuntu gets the same benefit from most 
of the Ubuntu work as Ubuntu does.  If you're talking about Gnome vs. KDE, 
Gnome requires a lot more work IMHO.

> > Kontact and Kmail have their quirks,
> > but Evolution installs on Kubuntu just as well.
>
> I also did not like Kmail and never used it for the same reason.

I had Kmail eat my inbox several years ago and I immediately ditched KMail and 
started using Tbird.  Tbird was great for most of my needs.  About two years 
ago I took a new look at Kontact as a PIM.  It wraps KMail, KOrganizer, and 
several other individual tools into a somewhat cohesive application.

It's far from perfect, but it works very well for what I need.  Much better 
than Evolution was ever able to.  I've actually come to love KMail.  I store 
all my contacts and calendar in an IMAP repository, and also maintain a 
remote webdav calendar which is shared with people I work with.  There are 
over a dozen other options for calendar and contact info storage available 
through KMail and KOrganizer.  

I've had quirky crashes occasionally, but nothing nearly so devastating as 
what I've experienced with Evolution.  

I'm interested in seeing Mozilla better integrate and leverage technologies 
into a PIM.  But it simply won't leverage the power of KDE like Kontact.  And 
the integration and ease-of-use and ease-of-kustomization continue to draw me 
to KDE.  


Still, I love the ability to have choices.  I can't choose what works best for 
you any more than the opposite :)  Hope it works great for you!
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