On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 13:37 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 11:38 -0500, Chris Williams wrote: > > Admittedly, I only use Evo to check 5-7 IMAP accounts and occasionally a > > Groupwise account. I guess I just wanted to comment that there are > > cases where Evo has, and continues to be rock-solid for some users. > > No doubt, but in a way that's actually more worrying. i.e. Evo works for > some people most of the time and for other people not so much. Evo in > all its incarnations has had variable levels of reliability for me, on > two different machines, always using Fedora and KDE. The distro packages > have I think been more reliable than self-compiled versions, which might > mean something. Right now I'm using a self-compiled 2.12.1 on F7 with > all distro updates installed and the entire UI freezes every few seconds > when I'm typing, when changing folders, and when (apparently) contacting > the IMAP server, plus evolution-alarm-notify sometimes eats 100% of CPU > and has to be killed (I notice because I monitor my CPU temperature!).
Oh, definitely. As a (non-Evo) developer, I do value consistency and I have to agree that I haven't always seen that with this product. I certainly didn't meant to imply that Evo has no problems at all. In fact, a lot of distro upgrades were solely because of bugs/quirks or inability to upgrade because of all the Gnome dependencies. I will agree that I probably have an extra level of stability through the use of distro packaging. I will easily admit I went to distro-only packaging because of many of the quirks I encountered while using the "real" releases. > On a different note, my junk filters simnply do not work at all (they do > with the distro package). I've tried SA and Bogofilter and they are > never automatically activated (I'm tracking them with a log file). I see occasional problems with filters as well, and junk filtering does seem to work sometimes while not others. Frustrating. > Tomorrow Fedora 8 will be released so I'll be able to upgrade and > hopefully these issues will go away, but it's annoying to try and stay > up with the latest Evo's only to find some missing funcionality for > reasons that are not clear. Before anyone asks, upgrading to the Rawhide > version means installing a large number of additional packages so I > don't care to do that, having had other stability problems with Rawhide > in the past. Good luck with the upgrade. I saw many improvements moving from Ubuntu's 2.10 to 2.12 packages. --chris _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
