Hi,
I'm currently using Thunderbird synced to OwnCloud on my main workstation running Slackware64 14.1. I just installed CentOS 7 on my Asus S300 laptop. It's running nicely, and I'm spending some time getting acquainted with it.
I wonder if I should stick with Thunderbird or go with the default Evolution application, since this seems to be better integrated into the desktop, namely the calendar function.
On the other hand, it seems like you have to jump through burning loops to connect Evolution to OwnCloud.
What are your experiences with these two clients and OwnCloud? Any suggestions?
Cheers,
Niki Kovacs
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Nicolas Kovacs Sent: den 3 november 2016 06:59 To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Thunderbird vs. Evolution vs. OwnCloud
I'm currently using Thunderbird synced to OwnCloud on my main workstation running Slackware64 14.1. I just installed CentOS 7 on my Asus S300 laptop. It's running nicely, and I'm spending some time getting acquainted with it.
I wonder if I should stick with Thunderbird or go with the default Evolution application, since this seems to be better integrated into the desktop, namely the calendar function.
On the other hand, it seems like you have to jump through burning loops to connect Evolution to OwnCloud.
What are your experiences with these two clients and OwnCloud? Any suggestions?
I use Thunderbird exclusively on my linux-systems. I also feel the Lightning-addin for calendars in T-bird needs "some" work to be usable.
While I don't use my Owncloud for mail, only used as a cloud storage, I have however used Evolution. In that context Evolution with CentOS sucks. It's just plain ugly and not a bit intuitive IMHO.
My workaround is to just connect to my calendars (Google Calendar) with a web browser.
YMMV of course.
Le 03/11/2016 à 08:41, Sorin Srbu a écrit :
I use Thunderbird exclusively on my linux-systems. I also feel the Lightning-addin for calendars in T-bird needs "some" work to be usable.
While I don't use my Owncloud for mail, only used as a cloud storage, I have however used Evolution. In that context Evolution with CentOS sucks. It's just plain ugly and not a bit intuitive IMHO.
With a minimal GNOME desktop installed (no Evolution, no Thunderbird), the system menu shows the clock in the upper right corner of the screen. When you click on that, you get a little overview window sporting a calendar on the left side and an (empty) list of appointments on the right side. Unfortunately that preview window seems to be preconfigured for Evolution only, so I wonder if there's any way to get rid of it.
Cheers,
Niki Kovacs
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Nicolas Kovacs Sent: den 3 november 2016 09:16 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Thunderbird vs. Evolution vs. OwnCloud
Le 03/11/2016 à 08:41, Sorin Srbu a écrit :
I use Thunderbird exclusively on my linux-systems. I also feel the Lightning-addin for calendars in T-bird needs "some"
work to
be usable.
While I don't use my Owncloud for mail, only used as a cloud storage, I
have
however used Evolution. In that context Evolution with CentOS sucks.
It's just
plain ugly and not a bit intuitive IMHO.
With a minimal GNOME desktop installed (no Evolution, no Thunderbird), the system menu shows the clock in the upper right corner of the screen. When you click on that, you get a little overview window sporting a calendar on the left side and an (empty) list of appointments on the right side. Unfortunately that preview window seems to be preconfigured for Evolution only, so I wonder if there's any way to get rid of it.
Something like this maybe?
http://askubuntu.com/questions/69305/how-do-i-disable-the-calendar-events-se ction-in-gnome-shells-clock-applet
Le 03/11/2016 à 09:31, Sorin Srbu a écrit :
Something like this maybe?
http://askubuntu.com/questions/69305/how-do-i-disable-the-calendar-events-se ction-in-gnome-shells-clock-applet
Exactly. Except this doesn't seem to work under CentOS 7. The mentioned file doesn't exist here. As for the "Nothing To Do" extension, it's beta software, and I don't know how to install that extension since I'm new to GNOME (Xfce and KDE user).
What now?
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Nicolas Kovacs Sent: den 3 november 2016 09:51 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Thunderbird vs. Evolution vs. OwnCloud
Le 03/11/2016 à 09:31, Sorin Srbu a écrit :
Something like this maybe?
http://askubuntu.com/questions/69305/how-do-i-disable-the-calendar-
events-se
ction-in-gnome-shells-clock-applet
Exactly. Except this doesn't seem to work under CentOS 7. The mentioned file doesn't exist here. As for the "Nothing To Do" extension, it's beta software, and I don't know how to install that extension since I'm new to GNOME (Xfce and KDE user).
What now?
Do you have to use Gnome 3? I'm thinking it might be easier to disable in Gnome 2.
On 11/03/2016 02:28 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Nicolas Kovacs Sent: den 3 november 2016 09:51 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Thunderbird vs. Evolution vs. OwnCloud
Le 03/11/2016 à 09:31, Sorin Srbu a écrit :
Something like this maybe?
http://askubuntu.com/questions/69305/how-do-i-disable-the-calendar-
events-se
ction-in-gnome-shells-clock-applet
Exactly. Except this doesn't seem to work under CentOS 7. The mentioned file doesn't exist here. As for the "Nothing To Do" extension, it's beta software, and I don't know how to install that extension since I'm new to GNOME (Xfce and KDE user).
What now?
Do you have to use Gnome 3? I'm thinking it might be easier to disable in Gnome 2.
Just use MATE - where it isn't even an issue (MATE is a fork of Gnome 2 and is in EPEL)
yum groupinstall "MATE Desktop"
Then at the login screen, you select MATE as your desktop environment. There's a gear or some similar icon on the login screen that lets you pick the desktop for the login, and it remembers what you picked the next time you login.
On 11/02/2016 10:58 PM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
Hi,
I'm currently using Thunderbird synced to OwnCloud on my main workstation running Slackware64 14.1. I just installed CentOS 7 on my Asus S300 laptop. It's running nicely, and I'm spending some time getting acquainted with it.
I wonder if I should stick with Thunderbird or go with the default Evolution application, since this seems to be better integrated into the desktop, namely the calendar function.
On the other hand, it seems like you have to jump through burning loops to connect Evolution to OwnCloud.
What are your experiences with these two clients and OwnCloud? Any suggestions?
I have zero experience with OwnCloud but Evolution was my default mail client for years, I was an early adopter of it.
I only use IMAP for mail, so I do not need to sync anything as everything is kept on the server.
I stopped using Evolution because it started having massive problems, it became very frustrating how often my workflow was interrupted because Evolution had some problem that it solved by rebuilding its own index of all my mail folders. That would take a long time, especially on my laptop, and it interrupted my ability to read and send mail.
Since switching to Thunderbird I have not experienced that kind of problem once. It's always there and always usable.
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