Re: [Sheflug] Evolution

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] barriebremner.com>]

>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Hudson <home [at] alexhudson.com> writes:

    Alex> On the subject of Ximian GNOME, it's pretty good once you
    Alex> get it going, but the packaging's absolute crap. They
    Alex> shipped a broken Nautilus, the Debian stuff isn't working at
    Alex> all, it's still effort. And the Evolution Dailies seem to
    Alex> have disappeared from the face of the earth.

I downloaded the RH7.1 RPMs for Ximian, and went back (strangly
"ftp.ximian.com" was broken - I had to connect to "axon.ximian.com" -
same machine different name - funny DNS I guess) to get the xml files
to allow me to install from local media, to find that Nautilus has
been moved from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2, which IIRC is still one version
behind.

At least it works a little better than 1.0.1 that Ximian shipped - the
tree view was broken due to a silly typo.

I must say, I do like Nautilus - just needs a bit of speed now.

Make that a lot of speed. I'd hate to run it on an old machine
(minimum spec is listed as pentium class (I think), 32Mb).

Some mirrors would have been nice - OK, so the system is Akamamized,
but everyone still had to connect to red-carpet.ximian.com at the
start of the download. And try again, and again...

Baz.

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