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Bug 269201 - Please restore executive summary to Evolution 2.x
Please restore executive summary to Evolution 2.x
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Do Not Use
2.0.x (obsolete)
Other other
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Executive Summary maintaintainers Team
Evolution QA team
: 269290 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-11-07 15:44 UTC by Allan Third
Modified: 2013-09-13 12:36 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Allan Third 2004-11-07 15:44:19 UTC
Description of Problem:
Evolution had an extremely useful feature called
the Executive Summary until before version 1.5

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Upgrade to Evolution >= 1.5
2. Try to find Executive Summary component.

Actual Results:
The Executive Summary component is not there.

Expected Results:
The Executive Summary component is there.

How often does this happen? 
Every time.

Additional Information:
I've read the explanation offered as an Evo 2.0
FAQ - in brief, "The summary was removed from
Evolution as most of the functionality now exists
throughout the GNOME desktop."

This seems somewhat to have missed the point. It
has *always* been the case that the various pieces
of information provided by the summary could also
be located elsewhere - the mail summary by looking
in the appropriate folders, the task and calendar
summaries by looking at Tasks and Calendar, and
the weather/headlines summaries from various
sources. The unique, useful, and now missing
functionality offered by the summary was its
ability to, well, summarise. Obviously a seperate
app could be written to do just this, but it would
seem to me that summarisation is an ideal task to
be performed by a PIM such as Evolution.

Given that the given reason for removing the
summary does not seem to hold, I humbly request
that a summary module be reinstated to Evolution,
if developer time could be found for it.
Obviously, you may spend your time as you wish,
but I'd appreciate it, and I'm sure I'm not the
only one. :-)
Comment 1 JP Rosevear 2005-03-24 20:41:31 UTC
*** bug 269290 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Not Zed 2005-05-19 11:31:36 UTC
the reason it was removed is that nobody wanted to maintain it.

that definitely still holds.

If anyone really wanted to they'd have written a summary component,but they
haven't so there's no use keeping a bug around for it.  if they want to they will.