OT: Thunderbird on the installer CD [was: Re: Evolution]

[Leif Gregory]

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:48:18 -0600
Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:

>     NO! I do not care to have Thunderbird as a default email client.
> I do care the Ubuntu has evolution it's default email client. I would
> have both a d/l choice.

I think you're going to have a hard time selling that idea. Back up and
forget what we know about Linux on the desktop and consider it from the
perspective of a new convert.

First they read up on reviews maybe and see that Ubutnu doesn't come
with a MUA out of the box, or some friend gave them an Ubuntu CD and
they installed it. I think, in today's world that a default MUA is
something people would expect. 

"What do you mean there's no e-mail? What the hell else is it missing?".

It doesn't matter that they can go out and pick any one of their
choosing to install, and that installation is a snap, all they're going
to see is a crippled desktop experience.

Now, take it further. Do they stop including F-Spot, or Rhythmbox, or
whatever too because people choose to use DigiKam or Amarok or
Exhaile (sp?) instead of the default (an example, no statistical
inference made <grin>).

You also stated in another post:

"Interesting Ken. I was not aware that Xubuntu comes with Thunderbird!
Now my goal is to get *Ubuntu* to all have Thunderbird."

So which is it? You want *buntu to have Thunderbird by default or not.
You're going to have to have clear objectives in this mission of yours
if you ever have any hope of making a convincing argument.

Is it more that you just don't want Evolution as the default? If so,
then maybe you want to attack the issue from another angle such as
dependencies in Gnome to portions of Evolution libraries.

Uhhhm, but isn't that the point of Linux? Being able to leverage
existing libraries and not re-invent the wheel every time?


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