On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 14:28 +1000, Nick Jenkins wrote: > > There was Anjal, but that project is already abandoned in favor of > > Evolution Express (coming soon in 3.0). > > I had not heard of Evolution Express before. For anyone else in a > similar situation, here's some info with some screenshots if you scroll > down a bit: > http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/evolution-express-for-meego.html > > There's some nice stuff in those screenshots, some of which could be > just as beneficial if included in the standard Evo shell. For example, > some of the following ideas look good: > * Trend towards getting rid of the status bar in component screens where > it's not useful, so as to maximise screen space. Presumably this could > be extended further to have temporary messages appear for current > operations, such as what Chrome does when you mouse-over a link, and > then the status bar may not be needed at all. > * A set-up wizard for popular email providers (gmail, yahoo, etc), that > already knows their server types, addresses, and encryption settings - > saving many users from having to know this stuff.
As a sys-admin I just want a simple auto-config mechanism so a client can just know what its domain's SMTP & IMAP servers are. But I've been waiting for that a *long* time. ACAP is long dead. :( > * Getting rid of the "cancel" button from the mailer toolbar (personally > I've never once used this toolbar button, and it can be done anyway > using the "cancel" button after the current operation message). This > would also solve https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305425 and > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336292 . > * Having tabs instead of separate pop-up dialogs in the appointment > editor, for recurrence / free busy / Alarm. +1 I've always found the Evolution appointment editor to be a confusing construction; even after using it for years [a decade?]. > * Moving the search box up a little into the main toolbar, perhaps > allowing the area it's in at the moment to be removed to increase > vertical screen space for the list of messages. You loose the "Show: All Messages..." select entirely. > How do other users of Evo feel about the above items for the standard > interface? I could not easily find pre-existing enhancement requests in > bugzilla that covered these things. Eh. I think targeting small screens makes sense. But there are also *large* screens. Small is the current cool, but most work is done on large screens; cool shouldn't remove features from workable [I'm not at all implying anyone is doing so; Express & Meego look *awesome*.] -- Adam Tauno Williams <[email protected]> LPIC-1, Novell CLA <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
