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

[Ken Kauffman]

Devils advocate .... is this one of those cases that the integrated
application can't meet your needs or is it just super finickiness over
design issues?  :)

Ken

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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