On 9 Aug 2008, at 19:49, James Cornell wrote: > It meshes better with GNOME, and it has exchange 2000/2003 connectors > with current versions, 2007 very soon. Theoretically it uses less > resources since it shares GNOME components, and I find it to be more > accessible from a business-minded workflow, as the contacts, calendar > and memos are better integrated. Google support (webcal) is another > perk. I argue the opposite, why Thunderbird? No major player Linux > or > otherwise bundles Thunderbird or ticks it by default if the user is > using GNOME. Thunderbird isn't like Firefox where there's an > immediate > dependence on rendering through gecko, or particular font needs, it's > e-mail, and e-mail doesn't depend on all the whiz bang things like a > browser does. I find Thunderbird to be redundant, and a waste of > space > because it doubles the library requirements as most Mozilla programs > are > self-contained for management reasons, while I can still argue there's > nothing wrong with a client sharing GNOME resources since I've never > seen any installation of Evolution fail outright because of upgrades > and > the like.
That's a reasonable argument too. As long as you could still install Thunderbird from pkg.opensolaris.org I'd be fine with dropping it from the CD. How much space would it save? Cheers, Chris _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
