On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 10:15 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 11:32 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote: > > Hey Murray, > > > > On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 18:36 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: > > > Evolution developers, please do try to find the time for this. You > > > deserve that the world knows about your hard work. > > > > > I have added everything to release notes wiki page. Sorry, I was > > confused with > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2007-July/msg00173.html > > and just updated to Roadmap only. > > Thanks. I didn't realise that you had updated the RoadMap. Not everybody > has done that. NP. I had done the day it was on d-d-l. > > So, we have the following: > > > * Improved SPAM filtering with plugable junk filters > > How is this different to before, from the user's point of view? I > thought we always had SpamAssassin and BogoFilter plugins.
Earlier, just SpamAssassin plugin was packaged and now even bogofilter is also shipped by default with Evolution. In the preferences window, users can choose which spam/junk filter they want to use and some nice SPAM options too available. With 2.12 Evolution can train SpamAssasin or Bogofilter with the 'Junk' (SPAM) and 'Not Junk' (HAM). > > > * Backup restore support > > What does this actually allow the user to do? Users can archive/backup entire Evolution mails/setting and restore it on a different/same machine. http://gnomebangalore.org/~sragavan/2.12/evo_restore.png shows that you can also restore from the startup assistant. > > > * Improved e-mail notification > Is this just about the notification area icon? By the way, I notice that > you can't turn that off from the main preferences - you have to disable > the plugin, when you know that it's a plugin. Yes. It is written as a plugin and you have to disable the plugin to disable it. > > > * Improved Gtk+ Printing support for mails > > What does the "improvement" look like to the user? You have a nice page setup and can print selected range. Most (all - AFAIK)of the Gtk+ print options are supported in mail printing like collate, two-sided etc. > > > * System Timezone Integration > > Does this mean that evolution no longer asks the user for their timezone > at first use? Are there any other user-noticeable changes? You don't have to update Evolution when there is a DST change. Evolution picks up the timezone information from the system default timezone database/category. > > > * Attachment reminder for message composer > > Could you tell us more about this? What does it do, and when? It reminding you of a missing attachment in case you are sending a mail. When you compose a message, it searches for some predefined strings and popups up a attachment warning. http://gnomebangalore.org/~sragavan/2.12/attachment-reminder.png These strings are configurable and comes with a default-set that works mostly for English. Locale specific strings needed to be added by the user atm. Again, this is a Plugin and needs to be enabled/disabled in the plugins and the configuration is also in the plugins dialog only. > > > * Evolution Exchange > > * Better offline support > How is this noticeable? Is it just a performance improvement, or has the > behaviour changed? I mean, how would the user notice this? Yes noticeable. The message list is filled up with cache, before getting/updating messages from the server. So that the user can read messages from the cache, while the fetching is happening in the background. This is the case with all Evolution providers and just made it the same way for Exchange also. > > * Delegation support It is like making someone act on behalf of you. You can give permissions and you can act on behalf of the user in Evolution. I will send you the screenshots in a day. I don't have a working setup atm. > Some new things I have added recently to the wiki... > * Magic space bar support One key to read mails in all folders. With just the space bar key, the user can scroll the message preview window. When the preview window reaches the bottom, on next 'space bar' it selects the next unread mail in the same folder if not, it wraps down the message list. When all the mails are read, the focus is moved to the next folder. In this fashion, with just space-bar you can read all the unread mails in you entire Evolution folder hierarchy. > * FACE header and Contact image in preview pane Evolution has support to attach FACE header while sending e-mails and extract the header while receiving and show it in the preview pane. http://bp3.blogger.com/_G_VBnbGWMzs/Rpy_2WCctrI/AAAAAAAABGo/qWewaum0Z-A/s1600-h/ZFace.jpg Evolution can also fetch the image of the sender from addressbook and show it in the preview pane. http://gnomebangalore.org/~sragavan/2.12/contact-image.png > * Calendar Search improvements Calendar search interface provides support for advanced search similar to mail and addressbook. The searches can also be saved and edited. The Show options provides quick access to Next 7 days' appointments and Active appointments. Under Usability: * Thread Improvements Any new mail to an older thread promotes the entire thread to the top of the list, so that the new mail in that thread can be read easily. * --disable-preview option If Evolution crashes due to the last selected mail, contact or task, it would be difficult to start Evolution at all, unless the user resets a few gconf keys. This option deselects the last mail and disables the preview for mail, contacts and tasks so that Evolution can start and the user can change the selection. -Srini. _______________________________________________ Evolution-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
