On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Jeremy Nickurak <jer...@nickurak.ca> wrote: > I for one have sort of checked out of the evolution design conversation, > because Evolution's poor IMAP performance makes it largely unusable with > large IMAP folders, especially Gmail ones with thousands upon thousands of > emails.
I'm really jealous of a lot of cell phone operating systems, to that end. (Why do they get all the cool, simple stuff? It's no fair!). The email clients in Android, iPhone OS and WebOS each have functionality so they load the 20 most recent messages in your gmail inbox, then there's a “Load more messages” option at the bottom of the list which pulls in the next 20, and so on. Really slick, and completely sensible. Whether that design is suited to a desktop email client may be an interesting discussion. > Thunderbird's integration with the messaging menu and indicators and > notify-osd seems to be moving fast, and its performance is substantially > better. Maybe Thunderbird is the way forward? I love that evolution feels > more like a regular gnome application, but if it doesn't work, that doesn't > help much. One big thing Evolution has over Thunderbird is that little calendar in the Gnome Clock applet, which talks to the Evolution Data Server to display your appointments. No such beauty if you use Thunderbird's calendar extension. I would hate to lose the feature for even a minute. I would have to stop mentioning it in ubiquity-slideshow, I would be very sad, and I would probably be late to school every day :( Is there a specification coming up that examines how this will work with indicator-datetime? I think a straight agenda (not a calendar) would be more logical, and it seems like a great opportunity to rebuild that component in a more extensible, higher performance way so that Evolution / Thunderbird / Google Calendar (though that could just be via Evolution) / GTG support could just be plugged in naturally. (And so it doesn't take two seconds to open the menu on my netbook). This component could be a nice stepping stone to making Thunderbird fit naturally for people. Thanks, Dylan _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
