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

["Erick Woods" <erick erick com>]

As JWZ says: "The two tasks share upwards of 95% of the UI and
infrastructure"

Why use a whole different codebase to perform newsreading (even if it is a
component), it should be extensions to the mail reader...

My 2¢

Erick



----- Original Message -----
From: Patrick Berry <pberry freestyleinteractive com>
To: Evolution <evolution helixcode com>
Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2000 1:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Evolution] Is there a news reader planned?


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