Re: [Evolution] Will Evolution 2.0 support RSS feeds

[Dave <lurid diepls com>]

On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 10:58, Ron Johnson wrote: 
> On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 13:04 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 11:21 +0200, Dipl.-Ing. Gregor Hlawacek wrote:
> > > Am Sa, den 24.04.2004 schrieb Rodrigo Moya um 12:19:
> > > > On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 05:07 +0200, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 16:42, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > > > > > Correct, the RSS feeds and Summary are both gone in 1.5 (and will be
> > > > > > gone in 2.0)
> > > > >
> > > > > Why is that? I've always enjoyed the summary page (not particularly for
> > > > > the rss-feed) as I have everything on one page.
> > > > > It's not optional then?
> > > > no, it's gone for ever. For some similar functionality, you can use the
> > > > clock-applet with evolution support, which shows the tasks and events
> > > > for today, and for news, just use a news aggregator, like straw or
> > > > similar.
> > >
> > > I still find it a pity that the summary is gone but could you supply a
> > > link to the clock-applet.
> > it's part of gnome-applets, but take in mind that you'll need probably
> > to compile it so that it includes evolution support. Unless you use XD2
> > unstable for SuSE, which already has it compiled with that support in.
>
> Note that Debian has also compiled it in (at least for GNOME v2.6, 
> don't know about v2.4, but I bet it is).

Thats fine, but I still don't understand why its going away.  Its extremely handy
to have all your information accessable from one single screen.  I can sit down
with a cup of coffee in the morning and at a glance see my Mail summary,
appointments for the month and my to-do list.  I can also go over the headlines
from various websites quickly before I leave for work.  Why take this out?  Am 
I going to be required to click every single folder I just mentioned to see if
anything has changed?  Its not that it would be hard to do, but why should I have
to if there is already a way to see ALL the information at a glance?  Now I'm going
to need two programs open (mail and this 'clock applet') to do what Evolution
currently does (and does well) right now?  That makes no sense.

I don't mean to start ranting or getting too far OT, but this is so typical of
Gnome lately.  It seems like every single update of every single Gnome program
has more and more of the functionality stripped out of it.  Maybe I just don't
understand the mindset behind this (and the general Gnome mindset as well, I
guess).  Can someone please explain the rational behind this move to me?  And if
there are any plans to replace it with anything?