Re: [OT] Deafening silence
I've finally given up on Evolution and moved back to Thunderbird.
I really wanted Evolution to be a good mail and calendar client, but for
the last 5 years or so it's always been *almost* there. It was
calendaring and Palm sync that kept me on it for a long time, and the
promise that proper Exchange connectivity was coming.
Using an LDAP server consistently causes lockups. The whole UI freezes
up for extended periods of time. God knows what they're doing, but
apparently they never learned to separate blocking operations like
network communication from the UI thread. It often ends up occupying
2.5G of resident memory which I can only assume is a memory leak since
it grows over time.
I've reported bugs over the years, and they seem to fall on deaf ears.
When they do manage to fix something, invariably something else breaks.
Now that I've moved to a Droid, I've switched over to Google's calendar
and I'm not looking back.
Wayne.
On 03/22/2010 01:56 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Craig White wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 15:26 -0800, Russell Miller wrote:
>
>> On Saturday 13 March 2010 02:58:48 pm Craig White wrote:
>>
>
>> The users and bug reports are, by and large, irrelevant. Mine certainly have
>> been. As I said, sometimes I did not give enough info, but it also really
>> didn't *matter*.
>>
> ----
> would like to relate something very funny about bug reporting.
>
> I reported a bug to Ximian (gnome-evolution) more than 5 years ago and
> it just got picked up today...
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271193
>
> Of course I had completely forgotten about this bug report I made and in
> the spirit of better late than never, I suppose I am glad.
>
> Bug reports are not always irrelevant but sometimes it seems that way.
>
>
Seamonkey 2.0.1 fixed a bug I reported in about 1995 or so. Unlike the Linux
kernel there's no easy way to put patches out, so fixing a bug becomes a
lifetime job.