[Evolution] Feature-Debate [Was: Reply-To: field on the evolution list]

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam opengroupware us>]

     I. On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 12:28 -0400, Art Alexion wrote:
> 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.

Yep.

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

It would be nice for me, but not really a killer-feature.  I'd be very
happy just to have toggle on/off even if the icons remained but where
disabled.

> > 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.

No crashes on openSUSE 11.1

> 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.

Hmmm, I've never seen that one.

> We should never expect that our preferences are universal and apply to
> others.  I haven't used virtual folders since it was Ximian Evolution 

I haven't used them since the advent of Beagle.  Now if I want anything
I just search - and there everything is.  Although now it looks like I
have to switch to using Tracker as Beagle is unmaintained.