Re: [Evolution] Evolution 2.0

[Gerardo Marin <gerardo ximian com>]

On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 14:39 -0400, Kelly J. Morris wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 20:00, guenther wrote:
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> > Evolution 2.0 will have a build in (using SA) spam filter feature.
> > Final
> > release (tarballs) is due next Monday. (Now that's RSN... ;)
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> Guenther - I've been lurking (with Evolution 1.4.6 on SuSE 9 Pro) and
> waiting for Evolution 2.0, hoping that it will address some annoyances
> with 1.4.6, such as:
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> 1. In Evolution Calendar, I set the alarm to signal me several hours
> before each appointment. When the alarm window appears, it frequently
> causes the application to crash.

Fixed.

> 2. Evolution frequently crashes on start-up. The error message indicates
> a "segmentation fault." I have to close and re-start.
Fixed (and related to 1)

> 3. Cut-and-paste & copy-and-paste do not function reliably, whether
> using the drop-down menu at <Edit> or using keyboard shortcuts
> (Ctrl-Insert, Ctrl-Del, and Shift-Insert, or Ctrl-C etc.). This is also
> true of OpenOffice and other apps.

Yeah, a gnome issue.

> 4. Evolution is sooooo slooooowwww. There is a significant lag time at
> just about every mouse click, e.g clicking on the tool bar to get a
> drop-down menu, or even just placing the cursor in the message area. Any
> movement is frequently accompanied by blurring.

Again not an Evolution issue. Works fine for me in a pretty old PII 350
(512 MB memory).


> Will 2.0 fix any or all of this?

At least the points really belonging to Evolution were addressed.

> Thanks. Kelly Morris
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Gerardo Marin

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