On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 15:12 +0000, Calum Benson wrote: > 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 :)
Me too :) > > > 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). I'd love to see epiphany (using webkit) available as well. Its probably not ready to replace firefox but as an option in the repository it would be great. -Mark
