The endless worry of non-support in future Linux desktop software

(written by lawrence krubner, however indented passages are often quotes). You can contact lawrence at: lawrence@krubner.com, or follow me on Twitter.

I keep worrying that Evolution will simply stop at some point, which makes me leery about using it at all. Though I use Thunderbird and I hate how buggy it is.

Shane Fagan writes:

There is a calender, a notes thing, a tasks thing and contacts but how much of it do we actually use? I use the contacts and the email stuff myself but I haven’t used the others at all. There are other programs to do those things except the calender.

Oh and on the email features how many people actually use anything other than pop3 or imap? Most services like yahoo, gmail and windows mail support those two and the other two protocols novell groupwise and MS exchange ive never used personally.

Its a huge program and its a UI nightmare but each release that goes by and thunderbird is suggested and the argument against it is that it doesn’t have the support that evolution has. So maybe we should take the step down in features for a better experience or keep the features and have a horrible experience.

Imagine what cool stuff we could do with zeitgeist and a stripped down nice basic email client. There is polster which sounds really cool I have to say but its only very new.

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    http://shanefagan.com/features-of-evolution/
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