On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:22:15PM -0700, 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. > Yeah, I've tried Evolution 2 or 3 times over the last few years and always ended up being disappointed. For one thing it's DOG SLOW. It seems to want to index all the mail folders every time it starts and that can take MINUTES. and even when past that it's still like molasses climbing a hill in January in northern canada. > > > 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. > > > > > > -- > 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 -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------- But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. ------------------------------- Romans 5:8 (niv) ------------------------------ -- 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
