On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 17:00 +1000, James Gregory wrote: > On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 15:44 +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: > > Is anyone else finding Evolution to be a real PITA? > > No, I think it's a great piece of software. > > > I thought v1.4 was bad enough with its regular crashes, but I think v2 > > is worse with its cycle hogging, and the compose window stalling for up > > to a minute. > > Hm. I run it on my laptop all the time (which I have throttled to 600MHz > so it doesn't make so much noise) and have found it very snappy. > Particularly when switching between mailboxes -- I found mutt's constant > re-indexing of mailboxes a real pain in that situation. It does use a > fair bit of RAM though; perhaps you're just seeing delays from swapping. >
Well, I have it running on a 750MHz box with 390+Mb and it is shit. > The only thing I miss from 1.4 is the RSS reader. > > > If anyone can suggest an easy way to export the address book then I > > would like to look at thunderbird instead. > > If you highlight all your contacts and right-click, there's an option in > that menu for 'Save as VCard', which spits out a .vcf file. I believe > that's a format that Thunderbird knows how to read. That sound like what I want > > HTH, > > James. > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Howard LANNet Computing Associates - your Linux people <http://lannet.com.au> -- When you just want a system that works - you choose Linux When you want a system that just works - you choose Microsoft -- Flatter government, not fatter government Get rid of the Australian states -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
