On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 21:46 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> Evolution should run fine on KDE
> tho I've not run it, but of course being a GNOME app, it'll bring with it
> all sorts of GNOME dependencies. Hopefully someone who has tried it can
> fill in more details for you.
Evolution started out as a desktop-independent app, so maybe it can
still run in other desktop environments. It's an odd piece. The
feature design is absolutely brilliant, but somewhere along the way the
programming got short shrift. Maybe it's just manifesting underlying
bugs in GTK+ and Gobject, but if you do anything in the least insulting
to it, it goes away. I wouldn't use its internal mail storage, or rely
on any internal data storage features. All my mail is done with IMAP
from my servers, and my address database is backed up on a couple of
LDAP databases which I can also get to from a web UI when I'm on the
road. If you (or anyone) is interested, google for "Living with
Evolution" and the first thing that comes up is a piece I wrote on it a
while back. Anyone who uses the program for more than casual purposes
ought to read it. Evolution is typical Gnome stuff. Absolutely
brilliant in theory and design but buggy as all getout.
I checked out KMail. Yes, it runs LDAP, but only to transfer name and
phone number info into its internal database - not address and details -
and it doesn't display LDAP data on a par with its internal db as
Evolution does.
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