On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 17:43 -0400, Martin Owens wrote: > I'm all for replacing evolution data store and the evolution UI, but I > fear what will happen is that we will be told to use the internet > (because everything is online right) and we won't be able to have our > data on our machines any more.
I think the answer to online vs local should be: both. You shouldn't have to mess around with stuff in the browser on your own machine, but you should be able to access your email and data everywhere. > Then there is the problem that no one's figured out how to do > incremental backups of monolithic databases so my current email database > eats through my hard drive space every time I perform a backup. The filesystem and related infrastructure should be enabled to handle email directly. One email, one file. I think BeOS did that. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
