Re: [Evolution] Does Evolution retrieve email even when it is not being run??

[JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>]

On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 10:21 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 16:34 -0700, Evolution List wrote:
> [snip]
> > > wasn't constantly crashing for most people... if it was, we wouldn't
> > > have shipped it.
> >
> > Hmmm...well...all one needs to do is read through reviews of the older
> > Evolution to know that it had major problems Jeffrey.  Lots and lots of
> > problems with instability.  Many considered that it was not quite a
> > mature project yet and needed a lot of work to get there.  At least from
> > the reading I did at the time.  It was very quirky and unstable for me
> > running under KDE.  I tried the old one for a day and quickly gave up on
> > it. 
>
> I'd bet anything that KDE was applying some theme or another to
> Evolution to make it look like other KDE/Qt applications and that's what
> was causing the crashes (we got a lot of reports from people running KDE
> and it was because of the theme they were using, having them switch to
> no theme made all the crashes go away)

The Thin Keramik (sp?) them did have some problems with Evo (and some
other GNOME apps I believe).  Recent SuSE updates fix this and I imagine
its also been pushed upstream.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>
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