Re: [Evolution] Is there a news reader planned?

[Patrick Berry <pberry freestyleinteractive com>]

on 5/28/00 11:37 AM, Jamie Zawinski at jwz jwz org wrote:

> Patrick Berry wrote:
> > I would assume that evolution will be able to use pan (the gnome news reader
> > that is in the helix package) as a component, much like it uses everything
> > else as components.
>
> Even if that's possible, building separate apps for reading mail and
> news is madness.  The two tasks share upwards of 95% of the UI and
> infrastructure.

But I thought that was the point of using components.  Evolution does a good
job of using the gnome-pim for it's calendar portion...I don't see why it
couldn't do as good a job with pan.  Am I missing something?

Pat