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Gnome conference - breaking new ground, starting from Istanbul (Heise)
Heise reports
from GUADEC. "Gnome co-founder Frederico Mena-Quintero
concentrated on the traditional document-centred desktop. Whilst users have
no problems with emails, chat or music, they often have trouble finding
their documents. Rather than a folder view, he espouses a journal, which
shows documents sorted chronologically. According to Mena-Quintero, the
idea is nothing new, but with a sensible GUI and in tandem with functions
such as tags, it could offer significant improvements for users."
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Gnome conference - breaking new ground, starting from Istanbul (Heise) Posted Jul 24, 2008 8:14 UTC (Thu) by sylware (guest, #35259) [Link] Hu, breaking new ground? You mean get rid of mono and break down the Evolution bloat?
Gnome conference - breaking new ground, starting from Istanbul (Heise) Posted Jul 24, 2008 17:12 UTC (Thu) by ovitters (subscriber, #27950) [Link] Your comment is less than useful. I'm not sure why you want to troll, but please do so elsewhere.
Gnome conference - breaking new ground, starting from Istanbul (Heise) Posted Jul 25, 2008 7:14 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] He's *forced* to use these things unless someone personally deletes every copy on Earth. Isn't software like that for you? (editing this comment in konqueror, galeon, firefox, seamonkey, links, lynx, dillo, w3m, xemacs, emacs, nvi, vim, joe, ed, edt and teco simultaneously.)
Gnome conference - breaking new ground, starting from Istanbul (Heise) Posted Jul 25, 2008 11:36 UTC (Fri) by whitemice (guest, #3748) [Link] Evolution is not bloated by any reasonable definition of "bloat"; Evolution is a highly modular and componentized application. Find a new dead horse to beat.
Gnome conference - breaking new ground, starting from Istanbul (Heise) Posted Jul 25, 2008 21:25 UTC (Fri) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link] Wait, that's new to me. So I can for example start one part of Evolution (say, mail) separately, or embed it into another application?
Gnome conference - breaking new ground, starting from Istanbul (Heise) Posted Jul 27, 2008 21:25 UTC (Sun) by lacostej (guest, #2760) [Link] http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/ "Evolution provides integrated mail, addressbook and calendaring functionality to users of the GNOME desktop." Why would they want to provide a broken down evolution, if the goal is to provide integration ? The market is Outlook competition, not mutt,thunderbird,etc alternative.
Gnome conference - breaking new ground, starting from Istanbul (Heise) Posted Jul 28, 2008 5:38 UTC (Mon) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link] First of all, I can think of several reasons - ppl rarely need all the components (eg some need mail, or news reader, or notes, or mail & agenda) etcetera. For performance reasons, having the ability to fully shut off some components or just start the one you need is very useful. And if you can compete with BOTH outlook and thunderbird, isn't that a good thing? Second - the 'integrated' probably doesn't mean the application itself, but the integration it (should) offers within Gnome (like with the clock). Providing a gui-less dataserver which one can easily query from whatever app, probably providing a library with widgets to easily use by app devs etc (Evolution does most of that, afaik). But my question was more directed at the comment about how Evolution was modular and componentized. I just tought: if it really is, starting parts of it or disabling them would be trivial and thus most likely supported.
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