Re: [Evolution-hackers] PIM application suite

[William Jon McCann <mccannwj pha jhu edu>]

Not Zed wrote:
> FWIW, and probably not much, we have a design team who addresses this 
> stuff anyway.  They're not active on the hackers list since they don't 
> hack.  I think its a well known fact that engineers (and egads even 
> worse, computer scientists) are the worst people to design UI's - I know 
> i'm a prime example.

Hi,

So are there public ways for inquiring minds to learn what goes on in 
this design team?

Since I don't know what the design team is planning, I would like to 
throw another idea out there.

You can't optimally integrate components into an application suite and 
the desktop at the same time.  You must pick one - it is a design 
choice.  I hope, in the future, we choose to integrate optimally with 
the desktop.

In the end, the desktop is the product.

One reason I have read, so far, for keeping the suite bundled is that 
there are many interdependencies between components.  The mail component 
needs to interface with the address book and calendar.  Well, so does 
the rest of the desktop.  And so do alternate mail readers.

Jon