Gentoo Archives: gentoo-desktop

From: Justin Denick <justin.denick@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] Sick of evolution!!
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 12:48:37
Message-Id: 81e08d920605180540r379fbb42lb7eb9811047b51b5@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-desktop] Sick of evolution!! by Lindsay Haisley
1 Easy with the Flame Thrower Linday, macs also cost a lot more and are not as
2 open source. You get the good with the bad. Kind of like freedom.
3
4 Have you considered Thunderbird?
5 I haven't tried this so I cannot attest to it's usability!!!
6 http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0325716/vcard2ldif.html
7
8 As for the calender you should be able to export yours to an ICS file and
9 the import it into Sunbird which integrates quite well with Thunderbird.
10
11 Good Luck, and I hope you feel better ;-)
12
13 On 5/15/06, Lindsay Haisley <fmouse-gentoo@×××.com> wrote:
14 >
15 > Once again, Evolution has stopped working for me. It crashes with a null
16 > pointer error when I reach the end of a line in mail composition. It
17 > freezes when I try to access my calendar (status line says it's trying to
18 > open ~/.evolution/tasks/local/system/tasks.ics. I don't have any active
19 > tasks!). It's eaten up a substantial part of a gig of drive space with
20 > mail
21 > metafiles for stuff that's years old.
22 >
23 > I can't access any of the information I need from my calendar. I
24 > mistakenly
25 > relied on the program to store a bunch of professional appointments for
26 > the
27 > coming weeks and months and now I'll apparently have to re-create a bunch
28 > of
29 > this stuff from memory and by making a couple dozen phone calls. Bah!
30 > Evolution is worse than Microsoft Outlook, and apparently a lot less
31 > stable.
32 >
33 > I tried re-emerging evolution and evolution-data-server with no luck. I'm
34 > rebuilding glibc to see if that helps.
35 >
36 > Are there any programs out there (other than evolution) which will import
37 > an
38 > evolution calendar and allow one to at least see it? Fortunately, I have
39 > my
40 > contact database backed up to an LDAP db, and it seems that evolution
41 > still
42 > works for my contacts, but it's taken to crashing regularly for email, and
43 > when composing or replying to email, and I've fallen back to using mutt,
44 > which never crashes.
45 >
46 > Bah! Macs are looking better and better.
47 >
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