[Kde-pim] GNOME/Evolution moving toward email as a service

[Mark]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Kevin Krammer <krammer at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi PIMsters,
>
> some of you might have already seen it, GNOME/Evolution is working towards
> email as a desktop session service :)
>
> http://www.superlectures.com/guadec2013/evolution-as-email-service-for-the-
> gnome-desktop
> (you can use "Switch camera" to have it only display the projector recording)
>
> Quite some Deja Vue for anyone working on KDEPIM of course, their goals even
> include separation of Evolution components into reusable libraries.
>
> Still nice to see that our approach is being valdiated by the only other fully
> featured FOSS groupware client project :)
>
> If I understand [1] correctly they are targetting a 2015 release, will be
> interesting to see how this works out and how it compares.
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin
>
> [1] http://aruiz.synaptia.net/siliconisland/2013/08/evolution-hackfest-2013-
> redux.html

I don't understand them (gnome in general). What they want is akonadi!
Why don't they use that instead? Are they afraid of C++? Afraid of Qt?
It would be so extremely beneficial for both GNOME and KDE to work
together on akonadi.

I guess they suffer from the NIH[1] syndrome.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here
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