Differences between Evolution 1.2.4 and 1.3.92...?????
So, I downloaded and upgraded 1.3.92 from 1.2.4 and I have 1 question... What's the difference????? I mean other than it being incredibly slower and the fonts looking better than 1.2.4, I don't see anything. Did I not install something? I installed all the files from usr-local-bin. I assumed this would be a major upgrade....but boy was I let down. (no offense to James Ogley...this is directed at Ximian). Any insights would be great! Thanks, Tom - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems, Inc. 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com
Around Thu, May 29, 2003 at 10:44:06PM -0700, Tom Nielsen said something to the effect of:
So, I downloaded and upgraded 1.3.92 from 1.2.4 and I have 1 question...
What's the difference?????
from my understanding, this version uses gtk2, rather than gtk1, a rather significant difference...
I mean other than it being incredibly slower and the fonts looking better than 1.2.4, I don't see anything. Did I not install something? I installed all the files from usr-local-bin. I assumed this would be a major upgrade....but boy was I let down. (no offense to James Ogley...this is directed at Ximian).
I would think Ximian is more getting Evolution into the Gnome2 framework than anything else right now. Of course, as a former Gnome user and a former Evolution user, I might be slighty out of the loop on the subject. zth -- Zachary Todd Hartley | "In God we trust. All zhartley@linus.highpoint.edu | others must have data." | --George Lundberg
So, I downloaded and upgraded 1.3.92 from 1.2.4 and I have 1 question... What's the difference?????
It's the GNOME2 port
I mean other than it being incredibly slower and the fonts looking better than 1.2.4, I don't see anything. Did I not install something? I installed all the files from usr-local-bin. I assumed this would be a major upgrade....but boy was I let down. (no offense to James Ogley...this is directed at Ximian). Any insights would be great!
No offence taken :) My experience is that 1.3.92 is a big speed improvement (although my immediate comparison is with 1.3.3), and the 1.3 tree is probably only going to get faster until 1.4.0 comes out. There are no new features - it's just a straight port from GNOME1 to GNOME2. What that does mean is, on the one hand like you said, better font support. It also means better integration with the rest of the GNOME2 desktop. Some things have changed under the hood, in the 1.0.x and 1.2.x versions, each component was a separate binary, which ran as it's own process, in 1.3.x, it's a single binary with components loaded as shared library files, this is one thing that makes it nippier. What it means is that Evolution is now, once 1.4 is ready, in a position to look towards adding more features without having to worry about being based on what is now a legacy toolkit (GTK+ 1.2) and infrastructure. James -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james@rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter@myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.2). GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org
Does anybody have experience (good or bad) running Evolution on a KDE desktop? I tried a while ago (8.1) but it bombed straight out. Haven't tried since. I still run some gnome apps, Galeon especially, but they still bomb out periodically. This is on stock Suse 8.2 On the subject of browsers, here's my .02 Konqueror is too smart for it's own good, grabbing rpms and then stuffing up the install. Dies periodically too. Mozilla annoys me by INSISTING on being the email client as well, and not having a go-up-one-directory button. Prints better than Knoqueror, gets the pagination right. Right now I'm trying out MozillaFirebird 0.6 it's easy, pretty and quick, but still no up-button. Stable so fat too, touchwood. -- Michael James michael.james@csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166
Thanks to all for the responses! Even though there is supposed to be a speed difference, I don't see it. I installed 1.3.92 on a 2ghz processor and, in my daily usage, I've noticed 1.3.9 is MUCH slower and clunkier. Guess I'll be sticking with 1.2.4. Although I do see and understand the points regarding the GTK development. I'm using both on KDE3....should that have anything to do with it? 1.2.4 is much quicker compared to 1.3.9. Thanks, Tom -- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com
On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 06:44, Tom Nielsen wrote:
So, I downloaded and upgraded 1.3.92 from 1.2.4 and I have 1 question...
What's the difference?????
Apart from it loading in about a quarter or the time and looking about a
million times better you mean? Well, for a starters I can now
synchronise my Handspring Visor with Evolution, a major step forward. It
should also now use the same proxy settings as the rest of Gnome2,
another major plus.
I don't think the 1.4 release of Evolution is there to add tons of new
features, but rather to re-write it for Gtk2, not a small task in
itself.
Regards,
--
Anders Karlsson
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