Re: [Evolution] lurking mode... for now...

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

Quoting Barry Smith <bnsmith003 gmail com>
> I was excited by Evolution.
> I was excited by all that it was, and all that it was not.
> Stable, "standard", GNOME, encryption-aware...
> It was the first and only email package that I intended to use in my
> "Linux" life.
> Unfortunately (for me), I'm extremely happy with Ubuntu.
> Ubuntu running on a --
> MS-7051 Motherboard with AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1500+ and Phoenix BIOS v 6.00
> PG and 2 Gig of RAM
> is just not capable of running Ubuntu with GNOME3... and thus cannot run
> the latest Evolution.

I see no reason that box can't run GNOME3.  It possibly can't run  
GNOME Shell due to an unsupported video card.  GNOME Shell != GNOME3.   
GNOME3 supports a fallback unaccelerated mode.  Or buy a $40 video  
card that can run GNOME Shell with ease.

> Because the attempt to install GNOME3 on my computer broke Ubuntu, I
> decided to re-install the latest Ubuntu LTS... which most will recognize
> is Lucid... or 10.04.
> Just a note - the latest PPA version of Thunderbird 6.0.2 runs under
> GNOME2, as does the Enigmail plugin, as does the Lightning plugin.

Every app should run on GNOME2.

> Unfortunately, the Evo calendering tool is the default for Ubuntu's
> Clock 2.30.2... the nice default clock tool on the panel (or upper OS

Evolution provides a very nice architecture where other services can  
integrate via D-Bus.  So you can use Evolution services without the  
Evolution UI.

> taskbar)... so my next bit of research is about how to change the
> defaults in Clock 2.30.2... and what the alternatives are... so that I
> can COMPLETELY remove evolution from my computer... since Evolution no
> longer supports the version that Ubuntu is stuck on.

This is a odd statement;  Ubuntu chooses not to support the current  
version of Evolution.

> As you can probably tell, I am not happy that supported/current versions
> of Evo are not allowed to run on Ubuntu on my computer.  Yet, such is life.

Evolution doesn't prevent it; Ubuntu chooses not to support it.