is there any plan to split evolution up into separate entities that manage calendars, contacts, and email individually? i use a mac every day, so the difference between the ical/mail/addressbook combo is quite apparent when compared to do-everything mail clients like evolution and outlook. i think, in striving to do everything, they do everything poorly.
so... how do you envision splitting evolution up into multiple components making it better? I don't see it...
will magic fairy dust come into play? :-)
making one application have too much functionality also decreases it's usability (which thankfully gnome cherishes unlike KDE), however in this case even KDE got it right. they too use separate applications. so i suppose i'm asking for a petition of some sort to split the evolution application in to a suite of well-integrated programs that work together and do each individual task well
wait. you mean, you want it to do exactly what it already does? :-)
they basically *are* separate applications already, except they get embedded into a single window.
they are just applications that happen to be shared libraries that get dynamically loaded by the shell application rather than separate ELF executables.
rather than all tasks in a cluttered interface. because quite frankely, i never go to my email program to add people to my address book, nor do i go to my calendar program to check my email.
evolution doesn't force you to do that, so I don't quite follow.
the benefit of having an official gnome addressbook app would be a great benefit anyways. the way mac os x utilizes the addressbook for aim names in ichat is simply wonderful.
evolution 1.5 already does that
it makes managing names-->mediums 10 times simpler. i hope some day gaim works with such a standarized addressbook. i know evolution 2.0 is supposed to make a server for all these activities, but that isn't a replacement for what i suggest.
why not?
Jeff
