On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 18:23 +0100, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
On 1/9/07, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> I know. I was referring to Evolution alone drawing in most of GNOME as
> dependencies. Now I personally don't have a problem with having to install
> GNOME libraries (I install whatever (appropriately licensed) libraries programs
> I want to use or even just try out require), but I'm not convinced Evolution is
> a good reason to include them. (In fact, it seems to be the most hated default
> app in Fedora judging from the comments on the mailing lists, some GNOME users
> are looking for an alternative too, some even switched to Kontact or KMail.)
I'll back the idea for not including evolution in KDE spin.
Hmm having evolution on a kde spin isn't really a kde spin.
Kontact is already among core kde packages why should the heck be a
replacement for that ? at least evolution is being supplied on the
repositories.
As far are firefox and openoffice are concerned, I'm ok with them, but
not evolution.
example:
Kontact communicates very well with kwallet for password storage. Now
if we include evolution in the kde spin, should we be working to
provide such feature for evolution?
Chitlesh
Having evolution in the KDE spin doesn't mean that it has to be the
default group-ware client or even installed by default.
As weird as it sounds, I want it in -because- it is so d*mn big.
According to the Fedora ML usage stats, Evo holds the #1 spot - making
it reasonable to guess that many of them are KDE users.
Asking them to download 100s of MB during the installation is a mistake.
If/when kmail gets a better groupware/exchange integration, it'll be
possible to drop evolution.
- Gilboa