On 04/21/2010 12:22 PM, Wayne Feick wrote: > I've finally given up on Evolution and moved back to Thunderbird. > > I really wanted Evolution to be a good mail and calendar client, but for > the last 5 years or so it's always been *almost* there. It was > calendaring and Palm sync that kept me on it for a long time, and the > promise that proper Exchange connectivity was coming. > > Using an LDAP server consistently causes lockups. The whole UI freezes > up for extended periods of time. God knows what they're doing, but > apparently they never learned to separate blocking operations like > network communication from the UI thread. It often ends up occupying > 2.5G of resident memory which I can only assume is a memory leak since > it grows over time. > > I've reported bugs over the years, and they seem to fall on deaf ears. > When they do manage to fix something, invariably something else breaks. > > Now that I've moved to a Droid, I've switched over to Google's calendar > and I'm not looking back. > > Wayne. > > > > On 03/22/2010 01:56 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> Craig White wrote: >> >> >>> On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 15:26 -0800, Russell Miller wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On Saturday 13 March 2010 02:58:48 pm Craig White wrote: >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>>> The users and bug reports are, by and large, irrelevant. Mine certainly have >>>> been. As I said, sometimes I did not give enough info, but it also really >>>> didn't *matter*. >>>> >>>> >>> ---- >>> would like to relate something very funny about bug reporting. >>> >>> I reported a bug to Ximian (gnome-evolution) more than 5 years ago and >>> it just got picked up today... >>> >>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271193 >>> >>> Of course I had completely forgotten about this bug report I made and in >>> the spirit of better late than never, I suppose I am glad. >>> >>> Bug reports are not always irrelevant but sometimes it seems that way. >>> >>> >>> >> Seamonkey 2.0.1 fixed a bug I reported in about 1995 or so. Unlike the Linux >> kernel there's no easy way to put patches out, so fixing a bug becomes a >> lifetime job. >> >> >> > I know what you mean there. I gave up on evolution on day 2 of my Fedora install. Thunderbird is buggy but what isn't I have been jpilot for me palm device, seems to work well enough Have a great day Michael -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
