[Novalug] Fwd: What makes Linux great...

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Kevin Cole <dc.loco at gmail.com> wrote:

> I see things like Evolutiuon (e-mail, calendar, addressbook, backscratcher,
> veg-o-matic) in a similar light.  But I'll defend emacs with my dying
> breath.  Go figure. ;-)
>

That is one case where I think OSX did it right.  Email, Address Book, and
Calendar are all integrated but still totally separate applications on OSX.
It's modular integration.  KDE-PIM has an option to be in all one window
like Outlook or Evolution, or to run separately, but I don't like it.  It
feels too cluttered.  Evolution puts it all in one window and well, screw
you if you only want to use one of them.  I wanted to use the calendar.  I
like that it's integrated and the appointments show in the GNOME panel
dropdown calendar, but no, you have to use it for email too.  You can't even
set up a calendar in it without giving it your email credentials, and that's
just stupid.  I was intending to try to do something about the horrible
monolithic version of integration Evolution uses over the summer, but now I
don't think my minimal C skills are up to doing that alone.  The
Evolution-Data-Server is probably just fine, but the way the GUI is handled
is all wrong.

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Mackenzie Morgan
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