Re: [Evolution] My sent folder does not get synchronized

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> > Nah, I'm not getting worked up [1] about it. It's just that I don't see
> > the need to document things like this. But then I am fully aware that I
> > am not a regular user and sometimes have professional blinders on [2].
> > In fact, I never read the documentation (I only happen to know who wrote
> > parts of it), so I don't know if it is any good. ;-)
>
> That works for you, but I'm afraid it's a non-starter for Joe User. IMHO

Agreed, Evo needs a good documentation. My point simply being, that I
don't know how good the current documentation already is. I do know for
a fact that knowledgeable people did work on it in the past -- but since
I did not read it, I can't talk about its quality.


> Evo needs a) a tutorial introduction, and b) a reference manual, both of
> which should be fully searchable. It more or less has (a) in the form of
> the online help (which has been improving, but still has no search), but
> there's no sign of (b), and that's where you need someone with intimate
> knowledge of how the software really works. I strongly suspect we don't
> have a (b) because Evo doesn't really have a written specification that
> developers adhere to. This is par for the course in free software
> development, but it does have its downside.

Reference manual, written specification? If I get that right, you are
about development -- this one should come pretty close:

 http://go-evolution.org/Main_Page

Beside this reference, inclusion in the GNOME Desktop demands a certain
level of documentation for the API. Please don't ask me for details on
this one, though. ;)

...guenther


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