On Sun, 2016-01-24 at 12:34 -0500, Nick Pontillo wrote: > Hey all, there are two things I'd like to propose/bring to attention. > First of all, Google is blocking Evolution from working with Gmail > due to this: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255?hl=en
Nope, setup the account in GOA. Strong authentication works. But you need to be on a version of GOA/Evolution where that works - but I believe it has been awhile. > So my question is, would it be feasible for Evolution to start using > 0auth2, so that it is no longer blocked by Google? I believe > Thunderbird already does this by the way, I believe Evolution - or more appropriately GNOME - already does this. > And this brings me to the other thing I want to talk about, which is > that in order to give feedback about this I had to sign up for this > mailing list and send out an email. Yes. > I think there is a good opportunity > for Evolution to improve its user-friendliness by having a forum on > the web of some sort. No! All forums do is provide somewhere for questions to go to die. Mail lists have been around pretty much forever and are conveniently push-oriented. AND is is a FEATURE NOT A BUG that is adds a wee tiny bit of effort on behalf of the one seeking ***FREE*** assistance. This is Open Source. > *Forums are better than IRC and mailing lists because people don't > have to sign up to look at them*, You do not need to sign up to search the list archives either. Messages from the Evolution list(s) are fully indexes and show up in search engine results. > This does not even require any money, hardware, or investment from > Gnome. All it would take is for someone to make a subreddit called > "/r/evolutionmail" and then link to that subreddit in the Evolution > manual, gnome wiki page, and setup wizard. Maybe advertise it a bit > on Linux blogs/forums on the same day it's created. And it would be completely ignored by all those experienced with the application and in a position to offer the desired information. Check out 99.44% of all reddit feeds and you will find no-responses or completely wrong horrible advice - and then people will blame Evolution. Talk about alienation - nothing is worse that the kind of 'tech support' I see people receive via the openSUSE Facebook account. -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 OpenGroupware Developer <http://www.opengroupware.us/> _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
