On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 16:25 +0200, Jiri Eischmann wrote:
Hi Ankur, I don't think Evolution is going away. I don't even think they compete with Geary. It's a feature-rich groupware client for enterprise deployment, not an email client for an average user even though it can serve that quite well, too.
I think that the plan of GNOME is to bring simple apps to cover all the common tasks and yes, they will probably cover most of what Evo covers, but I suppose Evo will stay around for those who need more out of email, calendar,...
Yeah. Eventually, I'd expect even the various simple standalone apps to integrate with each other in some way - for example "Create event" in Geary to create an entry in the new California calendar app - it's really useful. I understand that the different applications will benefit average users that may only use a subset of the features that evolution provides.
I can imagine that Geary will replace Evo as the default email client in Fedora. But I'm testing Geary quite regularly and don't think it should be in a shorter time frame than 1 year from now.
Same here. I just tested Geary out, and I went straight back to Evo. I was just worried because I've been regularly filing bugs against Evo and was looking forward to the new fixes - the talk of replacing it caught me a little by surprise. :)