Re: [PLUG] Evolution vs. Thunderbird

[Shameel Arafin <algebraist@gmail.com>]

I don't want to start a typical KDE vs Gnome flame war, but I will say
that KDE has some great themes etc, and I think that after some
customization, you'll be able to set up a very attractive KDE desktop. I
like to think that I have.

And I was a GNOME snob for over a year :)

I'm running KDE on an old Dell Inspiron 8200, with a 1.4GHz Pentium and
1GB RAM, and an nVIDIA GeForce2Go, with a whole bunch of peripherals
plugged in (22" external monitor, drives, printer/scanner etc). I tend
to have close to a dozen desktop apps running at any time, as well as a
full LAMP stack. KDE handles everything quite nicely, and Kooka (KDE's
scanner software) is also quite nice. Gnome used to get quite sluggish
when I had too many apps open.

Anyway, this is completely off the subject of your initial mail :) Good
luck. I think the consensus on this list is that Thunderbird kicks
Evolution's butt.

S/

Alex Launi wrote:
> I'm waiting for kde4 to give kde a second chance, it's too ugly for me
> right now and aesthetics are important to me. I want my desktop to look
> good as well as be functional and gnome is functional .. enough. At
> least for right now and I definitely think it looks better.
> --Alex Launi
> 
> On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 16:11 -0500, Shameel Arafin wrote:
>> Did try Evolution, but gave up precisely because I was dual-booting and
>> wanted to use Thunderbird in both environments. Never tried a secondary
>> SMTP server in Evolution though.
>>
>> Thunderbird is great, except for its more or less awful calendaring.
>>
>> I also gave up on Gnome pretty much, and switched to KDE.
>>
>> S/
>>
>> Alex Launi wrote:
>>> The age old battle rages on. I recently stopped dual booting with
>>> windows since I got crossover office to run my games close to as well as
>>> windows. I was using thunderbird for interoperability between the two
>>> but since ditching windows I've started using evolution for its gnome
>>> integration. So far thunderbird is winning as far as functionality,
>>> speed, and ease of use but gnome integration is a major plus for
>>> evolution. I haven't been able to configure evolution to send to a
>>> secondary SMTP server, it only wants to send to my default which is no
>>> good. Has anyone else had this problem? Thunderbird did it with no
>>> problem. Thoughts of the Philly community?
>>> -Alex Launi
>>>
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