Re: [Evolution] Why I must stop using Evolution

[Chenthill <pchenthill novell com>]

On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 17:46 +0100, Harald Beck wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> here is some feedback to version 2.26 running under ubuntu.
>
> First, I encountered a couple of very annoying bugs: (No, I don't want
>
> to engage in Bugzilla; sorry.)
>
> * In the calender view, where tasks and memos appear on the right, the
>
> memo list is empty, though there are memos listed in the memo view.
The memo view in calendar would list only the memos created on a
particular day. Say if a week is selected
it would list all the memos created during that week.

> * Evolution crashes (!) each time I edit a previously created 
> appointment to make it an recurring event. So if I forgot to specify 
> that at the time of creation, I have to delete it first, and create it
> again, making sure I edit the recurrence information before closing
> the 
> formular.
Has been fixed - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579779 .

- Chenthill.
> * If I start the computer from hibernating (having Evolution started 
> before hibernating), I'm prompted for the password for one of my two 
> mail accounts -- without effect (endless loop); so I have to cancel. 
> This does not happen, if I shutdown the computer, and start Evolution
> as 
> usual. (That problem seemed to be linked with using ubuntu; but why
> does 
> it work for the other account!?)
>
> There are other suggestions which are not bugs, but they shall not 
> concern us here.
>
> I could live with the bugs above for some time, but: Today I started 
> Evolution, and ALL calendar, task and memo entries were gone! The 
> according lists to file them are still here, but no items. In other 
> words, without doing anything, all information is gone and I have no 
> clue why.
>
> I enjoyed using evolution more and more since I started using it a 
> couple of months ago and so I managed to live with the mentioned bugs 
> which were indeed annoying.
>
> But I cannot possibly use a software that deletes stored information,
> or 
> stores it in such a way that it cannot be retrieved.
>
> Well, I might go now browse ~/.evolution and see whether I can do 
> anything about, but hey, I wanna USE this software and not hack it.
>
> Hope that helps & looking forward to a (much) more mature version,
> Harald
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