On Fri, 2015-05-15 at 07:50 +1000, Tim wrote: > The packages in the archives are shared with Ubuntu proper, so the > patches are still there, however in many cases they have been made > optional, so that at run-time they don't affect the GNOME session. > > The real issue with evolution however, is that updating > evolution-data-server is a very big task, and none of us have had the > time to tackle that yet.
Thanks for the info, Tim and Jackson. If it's true that the Ubuntu Evolution package requires so many changes to work well with Unity, I wonder if it's really appropriate to use the same package for Ubuntu and Ubuntu GNOME. Wouldn't it be easier to just build straight GNOME Evolution for Ubuntu GNOME? I know that one thing I see a lot of on the Evolution mailing lists is frustration that the Ubuntu version of Evolution seems to have problems that are not present in other distros; partly it's because Ubuntu always seems to be shipping an older version of Evo than other modern distros, but I have to assume it's also due to the number of modifications as you mention. Also, I'm not sure what you mean by updating evolution-data-server: in what way does it need to be updated beyond what's available from upstream? Is this another set of patches needed to make EDS work with Unity? Or, maybe the evolution-data-server-online-accounts package? Is that Ubuntu-only? I thought GNOME supported an online accounts facility as well? Cheers! -- Ubuntu-GNOME mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-gnome
