Re: [Evolution] De-integrating Evolution

[Andrew Montalenti <ajm pixelmonkey org>]

Thanks for seconding my post.

Just a note: though Evo depends upon some GNOME libraries (for certain,
gnome-vfs, gnome-ui, bonobo), I am 100% sure you don't need the whole of
GNOME to run Evo, and you definitely don't need a specific window
manager.  It's a pure X application.

Andrew

On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 23:13 +0100, M Wedin wrote:
> I second this!
>
> And I wouldn't be at all sorry if I could use Evolution without having
> to install Gnome. A great app shouldn't be tied to a specific
> windowmanager.
>
> Just my opinion ...
>
> Wed
>
>
>
> On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 17:03 -0500, Andrew Montalenti wrote:
> > I am wondering whether there are any efforts underway to "de-integrate"
> > the various components of Evolution.  Evolution has a very mature
> > mailer, a very mature calendaring application, and a pretty mature
> > contact application.  It has less mature todo list and note
> > applications.  (For example, Tomboy is much more mature in both these
> > areas.)
> >
> > I know Evo was originally based on bonobo, and I do admit I don't know
> > much about that technology (though I am a GTK+/GObject programmer).
> >
> > I'm wondering if maybe Evo could support running e.g. a "standalone
> > mailer" or a mailer plus calendar application, rather than having to
> > take all pieces of Evo at once.
> >
> > I think in the modern working and personal environments, people want to
> > pick and choose their components.  For example, Google Calendar may be
> > way more convenient for calendaring than Evo, but someone might love Evo
> > as a mailer.
> >
> > In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if most users of Evo use it primarily
> > as a mailer, with the other components taking a backseat.
> >
> > I know there may already be efforts in this vein underway -- if so,
> > perhaps a pointer to a bugzilla tracker could help me out.
> >
> > Andrew
> > p.s. also, Evo kind of violates UNIX ethic of an application that does
> > "one thing" well.
> >
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