Evolution sucks!
In the linux arena, for those who dont know, there are two major desktop environments.
I happen to quite like both of them, I love the simplicity of Gnome, but like hte configurability of KDE. More importantly, I happen to really like the KDE applications.
I recently went from my KDE desktop to Gnome, for various reasons (I cant actually remember) and therefore switched most of my applications. Now for a lot of the apps, thats not a problem, Gaim vs Kopete - I hardly noticed, both can handle all of my IM accounts (see my contact me page), RSS reader, well I was using Liferea anyway, file browser etc, all fine.
But Gnome doesnt seem to have any kind of equivalent to Amarok, whcih is by far the best, most kick ass media player I’ve ever used. I keep my mp3’s on a server, and having a remote collection, getting it to update every day for any added podcasts, and play unlistened to mp3’s that are under the podcast directory. Easy to do and setup.
But the most irritating thing is Kontact vs Evolution. Now as an email application, there are some features of evolution that I like, I mean Kontact has a weird scheme that to move to next mail message you press the right arrow, not down, right! Taht weird right?
But trying to get my calendars to import into evolution is a pain. Kontact imported both my google calendar and the roadmap and task list from my trac repository without me having to really think about it.
Evolution wanted a URL that started webcal: to read my google calendar. I didn’t know waht it was, then after a quick google, found that it was just the http url to the ical file. Why start with webcal: and not http:? I wouldn’t have been so confused.
But Evolution wont import my trac ical file at all. the reason being that in order to connect to my trac repository you need a username and password. Evolution will read calendars over the web, but cant handle basic HTTP authentication!
After a number of minor irritants I think I’m finally going to move back to Kontact instead. Hopefully it works fine under gnome these days, without requiring a bazillion meg of memory to load up all the KDE libraries.