Le mardi 18 mai 2010 à 22:06 +0200, Frederik Nnaji a écrit : > Yes, you're right, we don't need the software suite Evolution anymore.
I'm interested to know how many people in this list agree with the above statement, or at least consider it a possibility open for discussion, before effectively going for the clock discussion. I personally think Evolution does most of its tasks (namely mail, calendar and contacts) very well. The problem is its monolithic nature and overall design philosophy that makes it very difficult to work well with Ayatana in general. It would be much better if it was a set of decoupled applications that communicated between themselves via dbus, or something like that. The current design is not only based on a single window for all functionalities, but this single window is allowed to open multiple times. Not only this is redundant and inefficient, but also creates difficulties such as Messaging Menu integration: for example, how implement window hiding if there's no such thing as "the window"? (multiple instances can be open) Geoff Goehle jumped to a lot of hoops in order to implement this functionality in evolution-indicator. Including patching Evolution itself. Unfortunately, this is not very maintainable in the long run, because some of the patching go directly against upstream wishes. Integrating Evolution better with Ayatana is not a matter of fixing problems. It involves working around design decisions clash with upstream with every change. It doesn't sound worthy. I like Evolution. I use it. But the more I think about it, the more it looks like an alien in the Ayatana world. I'd like to hear the list's thoughts on this. PS: Notice I said does *most* of its tasks very well. The exception is note-taking, on which Tomboy is much superior. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
