Hallo, I was just wondering about something. I set up Novell Evolution the other day and started looking for a feature I used back in 8.1 and 8.2 and so on that I didn't find. There was the calander and things I found without a problem, but there was something where it had news articles from a a huge number of sources and even weather you could have right there while it was grabbing your email. I couldn't find this anywhere and I'm wondering, has this been dropped? Or is it hidden now or what. Any help is appreciated, it's SUSE 9.3 Professional. If any used this they remember it because you could tell it where to get the news from from all over the web, and the weather from all over the World. I loved this about it and used it mainly because of that and I'm just sort of wondering where it is. It used to be there right when you laoded it up but it's not anymore. Any ideas? Having multiple POP3 accounts I use quite a few mail clients. My main client is of course Mutt but sometimes I use Kmail and Novell Evolution for the others when they are mainly links. -Allen
On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 23:43 -0500, Allen wrote:
Hallo,
I was just wondering about something. I set up Novell Evolution the other day and started looking for a feature I used back in 8.1 and 8.2 and so on that I didn't find.
There was the calander and things I found without a problem, but there was something where it had news articles from a a huge number of sources and even weather you could have right there while it was grabbing your email.
I couldn't find this anywhere and I'm wondering, has this been dropped? Or is it hidden now or what. Any help is appreciated, it's SUSE 9.3 Professional.
If any used this they remember it because you could tell it where to get the news from from all over the web, and the weather from all over the World. I loved this about it and used it mainly because of that and I'm just sort of wondering where it is.
It used to be there right when you laoded it up but it's not anymore. Any ideas?
Having multiple POP3 accounts I use quite a few mail clients. My main client is of course Mutt but sometimes I use Kmail and Novell Evolution for the others when they are mainly links.
-Allen
No longer available, darn it. I liked the feature as well. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 23:52 -0500, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 23:43 -0500, Allen wrote:
Hallo,
I was just wondering about something. I set up Novell Evolution the other day and started looking for a feature I used back in 8.1 and 8.2 and so on that I didn't find.
There was the calander and things I found without a problem, but there was something where it had news articles from a a huge number of sources and even weather you could have right there while it was grabbing your email.
I couldn't find this anywhere and I'm wondering, has this been dropped? Or is it hidden now or what. Any help is appreciated, it's SUSE 9.3 Professional.
If any used this they remember it because you could tell it where to get the news from from all over the web, and the weather from all over the World. I loved this about it and used it mainly because of that and I'm just sort of wondering where it is.
It used to be there right when you laoded it up but it's not anymore. Any ideas?
Having multiple POP3 accounts I use quite a few mail clients. My main client is of course Mutt but sometimes I use Kmail and Novell Evolution for the others when they are mainly links.
-Allen
No longer available, darn it. I liked the feature as well.
Me too!!!!! I thought it made Evolution the perfect (for me) must have desktop app.
No longer available, darn it. I liked the feature as well.
Reason being that Evolution is now a full part of the GNOME desktop and there are other GNOME applications that fulfil the roles previously covered by the Evolution Summary... News feed reader: Blam! Weather information: The GNOME Weather Applet -- James Ogley james@usr-local-bin.org Packages for SUSE: http://usr-local-bin.org/rpms Make Poverty History: http://makepovertyhistory.org
However, that page did much more then read news. It
was a summary page - much like MS Outlook Today.
That has been the #1 complaint from my users as I move
them off MS and on to Linux.
On 12/11/05, James Ogley
No longer available, darn it. I liked the feature as well.
Reason being that Evolution is now a full part of the GNOME desktop and there are other GNOME applications that fulfil the roles previously covered by the Evolution Summary...
News feed reader: Blam! Weather information: The GNOME Weather Applet -- James Ogley james@usr-local-bin.org Packages for SUSE: http://usr-local-bin.org/rpms Make Poverty History: http://makepovertyhistory.org
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On Sunday 11 December 2005 14:34, Richard Mancusi wrote:
However, that page did much more then read news. It was a summary page - much like MS Outlook Today. That has been the #1 complaint from my users as I move them off MS and on to Linux.
Their #1 complaint was that it was like MS Outlook? You have some impressively enlightened users then :) Seriously, try kontact. It has a summary page which in my mind is very nice. The problem with the gnome developers is that they don't listen to users. They have very fixed ideas about what their software should be like to be "usable" and they don't really care if people actually can or want to use it. KDE software is far more attuned to what people really want and like
No - sorry they are anything but enlightened. What I meant
was that they missed not having a summary page like the
one MS Outlook has.
My users tend to need the "Organizer - PIM" functions more
then email and news readers. Therefore a summary page
is very valuable to them.
Thanks for the laugh - my users are enlightened - that's
a good one.
On 12/11/05, Anders Johansson
On Sunday 11 December 2005 14:34, Richard Mancusi wrote:
However, that page did much more then read news. It was a summary page - much like MS Outlook Today. That has been the #1 complaint from my users as I move them off MS and on to Linux.
Their #1 complaint was that it was like MS Outlook? You have some impressively enlightened users then :)
Seriously, try kontact. It has a summary page which in my mind is very nice. The problem with the gnome developers is that they don't listen to users. They have very fixed ideas about what their software should be like to be "usable" and they don't really care if people actually can or want to use it. KDE software is far more attuned to what people really want and like
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On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 08:45 +0000, James Ogley wrote:
No longer available, darn it. I liked the feature as well.
Reason being that Evolution is now a full part of the GNOME desktop and there are other GNOME applications that fulfil the roles previously covered by the Evolution Summary...
News feed reader: Blam! Weather information: The GNOME Weather Applet
As much as I like Gnome and what it offers, I liked having those features in Evolution and do miss them.
On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 12:02 -0500, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 08:45 +0000, James Ogley wrote:
No longer available, darn it. I liked the feature as well.
Reason being that Evolution is now a full part of the GNOME desktop and there are other GNOME applications that fulfil the roles previously covered by the Evolution Summary...
News feed reader: Blam! Weather information: The GNOME Weather Applet
As much as I like Gnome and what it offers, I liked having those features in Evolution and do miss them.
(Ok so replying to myself is bad form) How do we go about getting the Gnome development team to reconsider and add these features back into Evolution?
(Ok so replying to myself is bad form) How do we go about getting the Gnome development team to reconsider and add these features back into Evolution?
Submit it as a bug in bugzilla.gnome.org But you better have a bunch of dead chickens to wave and virgins to sacrifice... -- James Ogley james@usr-local-bin.org Packages for SUSE: http://usr-local-bin.org/rpms Make Poverty History: http://makepovertyhistory.org
Mike McMullin wrote:
On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 12:02 -0500, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 08:45 +0000, James Ogley wrote:
No longer available, darn it. I liked the feature as well. Reason being that Evolution is now a full part of the GNOME desktop and there are other GNOME applications that fulfil the roles previously covered by the Evolution Summary...
News feed reader: Blam! Weather information: The GNOME Weather Applet As much as I like Gnome and what it offers, I liked having those features in Evolution and do miss them.
(Ok so replying to myself is bad form) How do we go about getting the People say that, but I don't see what's the problem. If the PP has further info or insights, share them I say. Gnome development team to reconsider and add these features back into Evolution?
Bug Zilla at Novell, refer to this thread so as to demonstrate support for your view: most people here won't want to fight Zilla, so reference to this thread will have to do. Money and patches no doubt will help, for those who have some money and/or can create some patches.
Having multiple POP3 accounts I use quite a few mail clients. My main client is of course Mutt but sometimes I use Kmail and Novell Evolution for the others when they are mainly links.
-Allen
No longer available, darn it. I liked the feature as well.
It is the only reason I used Evolution. As an email client, I don't like it at all, and the other features aren't of much use to me. I complained when Warty (Ubuntu 5.10) was in development, was told the code was still there, just needed some TLC. Or something.
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