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Gnome conference - breaking new ground, starting from Istanbul (Heise)

jospoortvliet — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:38:25 +0000

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.

Gnome conference - breaking new ground, starting from Istanbul (Heise)

lacostej — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:25:39 +0000

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)

jospoortvliet — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:25:27 +0000

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)

whitemice — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:36:34 +0000

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)

nix — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:14:39 +0000

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)

ovitters — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:12:54 +0000

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)

sylware — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:14:56 +0000

Hu, breaking new ground? You mean get rid of mono and break down the Evolution bloat?