On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 22:17 -0400, B. Joshua Rosen wrote: > The most important things to users are, > > 1) Reliablity. A program should work all of the time, it should never > crash or hang. Nothing else matters if a program is as unstable as > Evolution has become.
I agree. While it's true that I haven't seen many crashes in recent versions, Evo does hang more often than one would like (though again, less than it used to). Frequently these hangs are network-related and eventually go away, but sometimes they don't. Just yesterday I found Evo trying to update folders from a couple of IMAP servers where it had clearly been sitting *all night* without timing out or getting an answer. When I killed and restarted it, the servers responded and everything was fine. Evo has been like this in every version since I started using it something like 8 years ago. It doesn't seem able to cope well with servers timing out or networks disconnecting. Perhaps the most frustrating thing is that when it gets into this state you can't even kill it wihout going to a terminal as it won't respond to Quit or Work Offline. I understand the Bonobo-free version will go a long way to fixing this kind of thing, or at least lay the groundwork for fixing it. It's simply not acceptable in a user-level application. poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
