RE: [Evolution] "Message Display" now constant across folders?

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> Norman et al., here's what I really don't get it and pardon my ignorance on
> the matter, but have you noticed by the several posts here that the nature
> of the problems we are all facing is the sort of "[...] It was working
> before in Evo 1.2.x and now it's broken in Evo 1.4..." 

A lot of those issues (especially the one Norman reported) IMHO are a
result of the task that had to be done: The port to Gnome 2.

As Evo 1.2 was a Gnome 1 application and Evo 1.4 is Gnome 2, this
release isn't like other new versions, which enhance and fix features.
The port is a hard task.


> How can that be?? How can a team of developers of such competence as the one
> at Ximian screw up a release so badly that most nice characteristics of Evo
> got so mangled up it is now almost impossible to use it? Well, I actually
> _cannot_ use it because of the POP bug that prevents me from getting my
> e-mail from a server that, you guessed it, worked just fine with Evo 1.2.

AFAIK that will be fixed in 1.4.1.

In the mean time: Have you considered using fetchmail, just to retrieve
your mails and using Evolution?


> C'mon folks, Evolution is such a great piece of work! We cannot, for the
> love of... whoever, let it fall apart like this. Let's make it usable again
> and enjoy this masterpiece of software.
>
> I am sorry I don't have the gift of knowing how to program, but boy if I did
> I would dive right in and try to get my favourite e-mail/calendar program
> working again, just like its previous version did... 

Personally, I don't have any serious issues, just some slight downgrades
due to using the new Gnome 2 widges.

And from what I read so far, I expect a lot of issues to be resolved in
the next minor releases. As soon as 1.4 was released, I saw some heavy
activity in bugzilla...

...guenther


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