At 03:10 PM 12/27/2005, Bryan J. Smith wrote: >Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote: > >I'm confused here. Why do you need more than 1 instance of >Evolution running on a system? Because Evolution (because of gnome) is very single user centric. >As I've stated before on this list and others, Evolution is >not designed as an Internet e-mail client, it is an >enterprise collaboration client. It does not compare well >with Eudora, Thunderbird, etc... If you long for the more >"direct/straight-forward" features of Eudora, check out >Thunderbird. If you are looking for the 1:1 single sign-on >(SSO), desktop environment integrated collaboration client, >then the GNOME-Evolution is the solution you are looking for. This I missed in my searches. Back to looking at Thunderbird. > > Or do I somehow have to have multiple simultaneous logins? > >I don't see why. What are you trying to do _exactly_?! > >I think you're coming to conclusions based on what you think >you need, when you're not providing what you really need to >do -- that's something we can advise you best on. Not confused. I have been doing business this way for around 6 years now. At any time I could have switched to a single executing copy of Eudora with multiple personalities. But I chose not to. It is important to maintain separateness of my identities. And as things are developing, I may have to fragment further than I have. I have around 12 - 18 email accounts. These are grouped into (currently) 5 identities (I terminated one identity when a consulting gig ended abruptly). I run at least 2 identities all the time with their multiple personalities. I run the others a couple times a day (desktop DOES get cluttered and memory consumed). All the work documents and mail are organized by identity. So I am leaning more and more to separate linux users. > > And switch between them? I know there is a way to have 4 > > desktops.... > >You're thinking of the "pager" functionality -- "desktops" >and/or "viewports" where the terminology varies based on X >framework. After finding more gnome documentation, I see they call them workspaces. >[ **NOTE: These comparisons to Microsoft WTS/RDP and Citrix >ICA are rather insults to X-Window, which pre-dates both. Yes, I remember the flyer that was dropped around one of the ACM meetings when X came out. Around '92 (or was it '87)? I wish I could find it again. X use to be a real killer. But then we are not running the same Un*x on the same platforms, terminals, networks that we were then.