[Evolution] Evolution 2.6.2 ... I just want to cry...

["Paul Lemmons" <Paul Lemmons tmcaz com>]

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When I upgraded to Fedora Core 5 I got Evolution 2.6.1. The
exchange-connector was broken. Actually it was libsoup that was broken.
I stuck with it anyway, though. I found that if I restarted Evolution
often enough that it would eventually come up. It was very frustrating.

Several days ago libsoup was fixed and life was finally good! No more
crashes! On that same day 2.6.2 was also released but it had trouble
installing due to dependencies. My global address book was still broken
so I looked forward to the dependencies being resolved in hopes that not
only would it be stable but it would work like it used to before the
upgrade.

Well 2.6.2 went on and everything has gone down the drain again. Right
now, my machine is running at 100% busy doing what appears to be
nothing. If that were not the case then I would see it either filtering
or downloading and stalling forever. Attempts to close the application
gracefully fail. It simply ignores the fact that I click on the "X". I
want to scream.

It has gone from extremely bad to pretty good to absolutely unusable.
The progression should be from really good towards excellent. Not this
rollercoaster ride at the bottom end of acceptability.

Is there not some way to keep this from happening? I am a devoted user
but this is becoming intolerable. 

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Paul Lemmons
Lead Systems Software Engineer
TMC HealthCare 

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