I very much share the sentiment of dropping the one-application-does-it-all model. There is a limited number of tasks than an iterface can be designed to fulfill well. Separate applications can work together better than a monolithic beast like the old staroffice. Apple's iApps are a good example of separate apps working together (and, well, so is the gnome desktop).
The reason to have evolution split and have individual components behave like separate applications is that the interface can become a lot more simple. I'm very excited about the e-d-s concept and applications getting access to evolution data. As an example, take a look at the File>New menu. Right now you get a different shrtcut to bring up a new message depending on the active component. If we had separate application windows we could take advantage of consistency. Use sameshortcuts to do similar tasks. If the user ran an "addressbook" he wouldn't expect to open a new mail there. It is a lot easier to follow the Gnome HIG guidelines like that. It is hard to design an interface to "do a million things and do them well." -- Jakub Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Novell, Inc. _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
