Re: [Evolution] A couple of show stoppers...

["Michael Leone" <turgon mike-leone com>]

> A show stopper for people other than me (I like whips and chains, the
> nastir the better) is the whole "your whatever copmponent has died")
>
> No offence intende to the nice people who hav eprovided me with my mail
> prog of choice (Yes, I use evo every day for some time now, 0.3 i think,
> I'm a sick bugger)
>
> But, the click on a mail and get 10 or more messages thast some componet
> has died sucks.  Really.  It reminds me of the lovely windows message
> ("Cant create activex component") in that it means nothing but pain to
> the user...

Actually, it's a LOT better in 0.8. At least I only get one such message -
previously, I used to get one of these messages for every folder. And since
Evo used to crash so often, I got sick of clicking "OK" 25 times, once for
every folder I have, every time Evo crahsed when expunging (which was once
out of every 2-3 expunges). Now, I only get one "Mail component has died
message", once every 10 or so expunges. Still too often, but MUCH better.
Kudos to the team.

> I really would have expected this to be gone by 0.8  Clicking on a mail
> in a list should never ever ever kill a mail prog.  Sorry.

A good point. Not be able to display a wrongly formatted email, sure. Show
an error dialog or something, sure. Crash the whole program, no. But I'm
sure that kind of robustness will be coming along soon.

> Still... I use it every day for in > 250 mails.  It  handels it well for
> pre-beta software...

"Pre-beta"? It's at 0.8, out of 1.0 (which will be the first offical
released version). I'd call that "late beta".