Hi Firstly, thanks for producing Evolution in the first place it's a great piece of software.
The thing that's obvious about this, and a lot of proposals, is you can't please everyone. However, conceptually I'm not yet convinced that some of the proposal(s) will be accepted by a greater number of people than already use Evo1. This is simply because a "user" doesn't always see (or even use) the UI as the programmer/hacker intended. I like the concept of grouping, but what we have to day solves most cases. Indeed what it difference in users mind between these two screen shots. http://jason.redsys.net/evo2/calendar.png http://primates.ximian.com/~anna/evo2/evo2_calendar.png I'd seriously argue not a great deal; OK the visuals are different but the conceptual framework is the same - i.e. a group of calendars Following on from this, why should Evo2 group on a type of dataset (Emails / Calendar etc...). Surely shouldn't the UI allow the user to group on whatever is useful to them. Think "Department, Company, Friends, Project X" etc What is a group for one person might not be to another and why not have nested groups of information? http://jason.redsys.net/evo2/what-is-a-group.png Maybe the UI should be re-designed maybe it shouldn't. I think the key is to give the user flexibility but with a good set of defaults/examples. For my money features like vFolders are _FANTASTIC_ as they are very flexible to my personal changing requirements. I'm all for keeping things simple at the coding end but this isn't why users switch to Evo. They do so because it replaces a current tool(s) with a better way of managing their lives - hence it needs to give not take away features/flexiblity/power/etc. Lastly, why do we _NEED_ an Evolution Version 2 in the first place? Good look and let the debate continue. Kind regards Brent P.S. Isn't it about time we had a GPL Evo Groupware Server to play with ;-) _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
