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

[Art Alexion <art rhd org>]

On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 22:17 -0400, B. Joshua Rosen wrote:
> I think it's a terrible mistake to be adding any new features to
> Evolution until the bugs have been fixed. 

Maybe.  This is much more complicated issue than that.  Sometimes bugs
are quite difficult whereas a feature implementation might be trivial.


> Nobody cares about
> customizable toolbars or keyboard shortcuts, those things can wait.

I care.


> Evolution is in a terrible state at the moment. It crashes all of the
> time, it should never crash. It loses the ability to talk to pop
> server
> after 24 hours (at least it loses the ability to talk to Comcast's
> servers) which necessitates restarting the app. 

2.26.1 in Ubuntu never crashes for me.  Perhaps your instability issue
is related to something else.

I have constant problems with message counts, and occasional problems
with missing messages that I solve with a script that deletes the
indices.  This is annoying, but not a deal breaker for me.  It is a deal
breaker as far as deploying Evolution to non-technical users.


> And virtual folders is
> completely broken. Virtual folders is a really important feature,
> unlike
> trivial things like customizable toolbars, and more importantly it
> worked fine for years until the changes in 2.24.

We should never expect that our preferences are universal and apply to
others.  I haven't used virtual folders since it was Ximian Evolution in
Red Hat 7.x, and could care less if they went away completely.  I use
the toolbar extensively and would really appreciate if I could configure
it with functions I use more often.


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