On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 19:09 +0100, Mark Phalan wrote: > Why is thunderbird given higher visibility (by being in the panel) over > evolution - the default gnome mail app?
Basically, this is a hangover from JDS in Solaris-- based on whatever factors they were looking at, product marketing decided that Thunderbird was going to be the default mail client in JDS. There's no reason AFAIK that we have to do the same in Indiana, and speaking as a long-time Evolution user I'd personally be more than happy to make Thunderbird an optional download :) > Why do we ship two mail clients which cover basically the same > functionality? I'd draw the parallel here between epiphany - the default > gnome web browser and firefox. Point taken, although to be honest, pretty much all the major Linux distros prefer Firefox to Epiphany as their primary browser too. I'd be very happy to see Epiphany available one way or another, as it's a slick little browser. IIRC we had a few nasty problems trying to build it on OpenSolaris the last time we tried, though (possibly due to its recent switch to WebKit... I don't remember, though). Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson at sun.com GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
