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Re: Focus on Infusion
by Craig Black on Friday 15/Jun/2001, @19:56
It would be so freakin awesome it the kmail and infusion teams joined up with the Aethera team. Aethera's the application that shows the most promise at this point. They've spent quite a lot of energy cleaning up the Magellan code and have some very awesome things planned for it. We all can see what a good job Xamian has done with evolution but wait and see how Aethera turns out. Evolution will look boring. They basicly just Redid Outlook for gnome. Shawns guys are doing something better than that. Infusion is a little amateur project not even in the same league as Aethera.

Craig
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Re: Focus on Infusion
by no-control on Friday 15/Jun/2001, @20:26
<i>Evolution will look boring. They basicly just Redid Outlook for gnome. Shawns guys are doing something better than that</i>

Are you able to substantiate any of this, or is it just random spewage?

From having used both, I think Evolution is looking like the better application.

Also, it's not very nice to diss someone's project with no proof. From the looks Infusion does almost as much as Aethera, and certainly looks better, so I would put Aethera and Infusion in exactly the same league.

Hype is great and all, but in the end of the day, you need to look at what it actually can do, rather than what the (marketeers|coders) hype it up to do.
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Re: Focus on Infusion
by anon on Friday 15/Jun/2001, @20:40
Aethera looks just like an Outlook clone to me. Can you explain what will be so different about it? I'm currently using Evolution because Aethera doesn't work at all for me. I will say that Evolution does seem like pretty much a clone of Outlook, but at least it works.
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Re: Focus on Infusion
by Jamin Philip Gray on Friday 15/Jun/2001, @21:49
Since you can't even spell Ximian, I doubt you really keep up with Evolution developments. Evolution is not an Outlook clone. Check it out, sometime. The Camel backend is very impressive. Evolution offers powerful filtering methods and vFolders, which simply rock. It offers importing for several file formats with more to come, supports multiple accounts. The calendar is, IMO, the best free software Calendar program I've seen. And it's all tightly integrated in the Evolution shell which is simply gorgeous. Boring, it is not. Here's some information on the backend stuff:

http://ximian.com/tech/calendar.php3
http://ximian.com/tech/camel.php3
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