I might add , how easy it is to to setup a google mail account with thunderbird. I agree that the focus of xubuntu is no longer to be the most lightweight *buntu, but to give the users a rich xfce experience without being bloaty. And thunderbird may be slightly heavy, but it is not bloated.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 7 November 2011 03:41, Eero Tamminen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oak@helsinkinet.fi">oak@helsinkinet.fi</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi,<br>
<div class="im"><br>
On sunnuntai 06 marraskuu 2011, rYv3N wrote:<br>
> The package size alone is win for me. As well as memory use. I feel<br>
> thunderbird is very memory intense I actually use evolution, its alirght.<br>
<br>
</div>"Feel" is completely inadequate when it comes to memory usage.<br>
<br>
You need to have actual numbers from both of the programs when<br>
they showing same amount of content, with similar options<br>
(POP vs. IMAP, number of accounts, folders etc).<br>
<br>
I'm fairly sure Thunderbird initial memory usage is larger because<br>
it's more portable and therefore re-implements things that Sylpheed<br>
uses from the OS. However, more significant is how well they scale<br>
when the amount of mail increase.<br>
<br>
And as stated by others, besides size, there are other significant<br>
factors like maturity/stability, performance, security/support, how<br>
well program is localized and in general how easy to use it is.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>
- Eero<br>
</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
--<br>
xubuntu-devel mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>
<a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel</a><br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br>