Re: [Evolution] Evolution Under Xubuntu

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sun, 2015-02-22 at 23:12 -0800, Craig wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Something someone wrote recently under another thread raises a question
> for me:
>
> "Evolution is part of GNOME and relies heavily on GNOME infrastructure."
>
> I was considering switching from Ubuntu to Xubuntu, which uses the Xfce
> desktop environment, but I assumed that Evolution would still be
> available to me. While I realised that Evolution was part of the GNOME
> Project, I didn't realise that it's also technically tied to the GNOME
> desktop environment.
>
> So am I correct that I will no longer be able to use Evolution if I
> switch to Xubuntu?

No. As others have said, Evolution depends on parts of the Gnome
infrastructure but as long as your distro supports a decent package
manager they will all be installed automatically when you install Evo.
As an example, I never use Gnome and have always used Evo under KDE. One
caveat: you may find that your desktop doesn't automatically open the
gnome-keyring (which Evo uses for storing passwords) so Evo will ask you
to type in the keyring password once per login session. There are ways
round this for some environments, but in any case it's just a minor
annoyance and doesn't affect Evo functionality.

poc