Re: [Evolution] Evolution Under Xubuntu

[Craig <craig 1412 spamslip com>]

On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 11:31 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sun, 2015-02-22 at 23:12 -0800, Craig wrote:
> > 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

Hi Patrick,

OK, good to know. Thanks. If that happens I'll know why. Appreciate your
additional input.


Craig