On Wednesday 12 April 2006 05:52am, Erwin Rol wrote:
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 07:42 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 10:15:20AM -0300, Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote:
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Evolution belongs in the bitbucket.
And what are you suggesting as a replacement ? If Evolution ends up in the bitbucket, something else with the same functionality should replace it. So what other Gnome email+calendar+addressbook+task management application should i use instead of evolution ?
Well, if you put that many specific requirements into pot, then of course you're going to be right. If you drop just GNOME from "Gnome email+calendar+addressbook+task management", then there are options. If you take out all the +s, then you can find individual GNOME apps that collectively provide all those capabilities, albeit not in a tightly integrated fashion.
So, here's a suggestion: Take the best individual GNOME apps and glue them together, ala` Kontact. It would be quick (relatively speaking) to do and would give people who will only consider GNOME apps choice (and therefore, freedom) again; something they have not had in a while, as you so aptly pointed out.
I would suggest that this could/should be done regardless of what happens to Evo.
And why is evolution unmaintained? I mean it seems to be important enough that expensive commercial Linux distributions like RHEL use it as a default email client.
I'm wondering the same thing. I see some indications that there is still an active (though the pulse is weak?) upstream. What happened to those Evolution authors/developers/maintainers?