I second this! And I wouldn't be at all sorry if I could use Evolution without having to install Gnome. A great app shouldn't be tied to a specific windowmanager.
Just my opinion ... Wed On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 17:03 -0500, Andrew Montalenti wrote: > I am wondering whether there are any efforts underway to "de-integrate" > the various components of Evolution. Evolution has a very mature > mailer, a very mature calendaring application, and a pretty mature > contact application. It has less mature todo list and note > applications. (For example, Tomboy is much more mature in both these > areas.) > > I know Evo was originally based on bonobo, and I do admit I don't know > much about that technology (though I am a GTK+/GObject programmer). > > I'm wondering if maybe Evo could support running e.g. a "standalone > mailer" or a mailer plus calendar application, rather than having to > take all pieces of Evo at once. > > I think in the modern working and personal environments, people want to > pick and choose their components. For example, Google Calendar may be > way more convenient for calendaring than Evo, but someone might love Evo > as a mailer. > > In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if most users of Evo use it primarily > as a mailer, with the other components taking a backseat. > > I know there may already be efforts in this vein underway -- if so, > perhaps a pointer to a bugzilla tracker could help me out. > > Andrew > p.s. also, Evo kind of violates UNIX ethic of an application that does > "one thing" well. > > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > Evolution-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
