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Gnome conference - breaking new ground, starting from Istanbul (Heise)Gnome conference - breaking new ground, starting from Istanbul (Heise)Posted Jul 27, 2008 21:25 UTC (Sun) by lacostej (subscriber, #2760)In reply to: Gnome conference - breaking new ground, starting from Istanbul (Heise) by jospoortvliet Parent article: Gnome conference - breaking new ground, starting from Istanbul (Heise)
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.
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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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