Re: Evolution Plugins (Was Re: Rise of the Plugins)

[Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan novell com>]

On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 21:20 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Alexander Larsson">
> 
> > This is kinda a backward question. The reason you want to split it out is
> > of course not because you want to use the mailer without the addressbook,
> > it is because you want to use the address book without the mailer. 
> 
> ... and you can provide a deliciously optimised user experience for both use
> cases. It's worth looking at the user experience of the OS X communications
> tools, and possibly even the Windows Vista ones (although they're definitely
> uglier) to see why this is such a good way to go. It would be *FANTASTIC* to
> see Evolution become a suite of wonderful, focused applications instead of
> the Outlook clone it is today (and, sure, designed to be).

I'm sure it would, Jeff. Pretty soon.

-Srini.