Is Evolution dying? [LWN.net]

Is Evolution dying?

Posted Apr 13, 2006 11:36 UTC (Thu) by walles (subscriber, #954)
Parent article: Some distribution disagreements

This article implies that Evolution is dying. If it is, I would find it very interesting to read an article about Evolution, and how it got to its current state (hint, hint).

Since I don't know of any other program with both support for Microsoft shared calendars and for synchronization with my Palm Pilot, I've started thinking of moving from Thunderbird to Evolution. But if Evolution is dying, maybe I should just keep ignoring the problem of the corporate shared calendars...

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Is Evolution dying?

Posted Apr 13, 2006 13:50 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

No, I don't think evolution is dying, the article wasn't meant to convey that idea. It is in need of some attention, though, both within Fedora and upstream. Upstream looks like it is happening again, Fedora is at least trying to find somebody to do the job. This is a situation which should improve...

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Posted Apr 13, 2006 13:59 UTC (Thu) by astrophoenix (subscriber, #13528) [Link]

I don't have a palm, so can't comment on that.

but, at work I have to deal with microsoft exchange. fortunately, they've
turned on the exchange imap server. with that on, I can download my email
with kmail. I can click on 'accept' in a meeting request in kmail, and it
gets added to my calendar in korganizer. the only irritation is that I
have to click on the outlook web access link in the message to send an
accepting reply to the meeting organizer (I haven't been able to get kmail
to send a reply in a format that exchange understands). but still, in
about 4 clicks in kde I can add the meeting to korganizer and send a reply
to exchange.

the other nice thing is that I can take the .ics files which korganizer
creates, copy them to my mac, and ical there reads them as is. which means
I can then sync the calendars onto my ipod. (I know there are ways to sync
the ipod from linux, but I haven't cared enough so far to look into it)