Re: [Evolution] Reply-To: field on the evolution list

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 22:17 -0400, B. Joshua Rosen wrote:
> The most important things to users are,
>
> 1) Reliablity. A program should work all of the time, it should never
> crash or hang. Nothing else matters if a program is as unstable as
> Evolution has become.

I agree. While it's true that I haven't seen many crashes in recent
versions, Evo does hang more often than one would like (though again,
less than it used to). Frequently these hangs are network-related and
eventually go away, but sometimes they don't. Just yesterday I found Evo
trying to update folders from a couple of IMAP servers where it had
clearly been sitting *all night* without timing out or getting an
answer. When I killed and restarted it, the servers responded and
everything was fine. Evo has been like this in every version since I
started using it something like 8 years ago. It doesn't seem able to
cope well with servers timing out or networks disconnecting.

Perhaps the most frustrating thing is that when it gets into this state
you can't even kill it wihout going to a terminal as it won't respond to
Quit or Work Offline.

I understand the Bonobo-free version will go a long way to fixing this
kind of thing, or at least lay the groundwork for fixing it. It's simply
not acceptable in a user-level application.

poc