<div dir="ltr">Hi Jonathan,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Jonathan Carter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jonathan@ubuntu.com">jonathan@ubuntu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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> We have another example lately in Evolution demanding a password for an<br>
> encryption file. Good security if we are going to use encryption. But<br>
> the same 9999/10000 of us don't mind if you publish our email on the<br>
> Internet. So why ask for the password on a file that is completely empty?<br>
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</div>What kind of encryption?</blockquote><div><br>The whole thing is pretty well covered in <br><br><a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=814271">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=814271</a> <br><span class="object identifier"> <br>
Bug 236502</span> on Launchpad<br><br>Basically - if you use auto login, Evolution does not have the password for the keyring file and asks you for it - even though it does not need it because you don't want to use encryption.<br>
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Have you tried running Xfce as opposed to Gnome on that machine? Xfce is<br>
somewhat friendlier on CPU/RAM and provides a reasonable desktop<br>
environment. Not all the bells and whistles that Gnome has, but the<br>
performance improvements usually justifies it.</blockquote><div><br>I ran for the whole Gutsy release using Xubuntu on that machine. I found that I had to install too many things that I wanted to use (like Open Office and, if I remember, Firefox) that it was easier to downgrade a standard release than upgrade Xubuntu! Actually it is not very difficult to get rid of unwanted stuff and Gnome is not intolerably slow.<br>
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> As I said, Ja well no fine.<br>
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</div>I can assure you that your reaction to finding something that implies<br>
that you might connect to Exchange is completely normal, and I wouldn't<br>
worry too much about it. As I said before, I think this kind of thing<br>
will continue for a while, because it is necessary for a very huge user<br>
base, but I doubt it will be there forever, many companies are extremely<br>
reluctant to upgrade to Windows Vista, and this is a good time for the<br>
Linux crowd to show the world what they're made of.</blockquote><div><br>Ja - we have just made the decision at work not to go to Vista and this will give us a nice three year window to look at Linux in the corporate environment. It is not so much the big applications that are the problem - it is all the fiddly little bits and pieces that have established themselves over the years.<br>
<br>Thanks for your reply,<br><br> Bill<br> </div></div><br></div>