Hi :) There has been some discussion on the Users List about email clients. It seems LibreOffice is compatible with quite a few and people might be interested to hear about a new release of one of the larger ones. Larger and more like a drop-in replacement for MS Outlook. It's not a new project but it's still developing quite fast.
Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Matthew Barnes <hidden> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Wednesday, 19 September 2012, 15:13 >Subject: [Evolution] What's New in Evolution 3.6 > >I've never been very good about posting release announcements, but >Evolution 3.6.0 is set to be released next week and it's a pretty big >release for us. I just wanted to highlight a couple major changes so >you know what to expect. > > >Hello, WebKit! >-------------- > >We're in the process of abandoning our ancient HTML renderer (GtkHtml) >for WebKit/GTK+. We're spreading this across two releases just because >it's such a large workload. Dan Vrátil did most of the WebKit porting >and he's an absolute superhero for doing so. > >Evolution 3.6 will render received mail using WebKit/GTK+. That means >HTML mails containing CSS will finally be displayed correctly, since our >old HTML renderer had no CSS support. > >The email composer in Evolution 3.6 will still use GtkHtml, but Dan >already has a branch ready to merge which ports the composer to WebKit, >so we'll spend the entire 3.7 development cycle testing that and shaking >out the bugs in time for Evolution 3.8 next spring. > > >Goodbye GConf! >-------------- > >Evolution mostly moved from GConf to dconf (aka GSettings) in 3.4, but >account settings were still kept in GConf in those nasty XML blobs that >everyone hates, including myself. This is because I was taking my sweet >time to finish a complete overhaul of our account storage format, which >I had actually started all the way back in the GNOME 2.32 era. > >Evolution 3.6 will move your account data to plain text files which live >in $HOME/.config/evolution/sources. Evolution-Data-Server 3.6 will also >introduce a new D-Bus service which will serve these files to Evolution, >GNOME Contacts, GNOME Shell and any other E-D-S client, and also handle >various other miscellaneous chores like talking to GNOME Online Accounts >and cleaning up old data after you delete an account. > >WARNING: Because our data migration is always one-way only (forward), > and because Evolution 3.4 does not know the new account storage > format or the new storage location in 3.6, downgrading from 3.6 > back to 3.4 is going to be problematic. > > Similar to when we moved files from $HOME/.evolution to the > standard XDG base directories back in 2.32, downgrading from > 3.6 won't technically lose your account settings, but older > versions won't be able to find them. So be aware of this. > > >Smaller Development Team >------------------------ > >And now for some sad news. Since Evolution 3.4 was released we've had a >significant reduction in our development team. SUSE decided to cut all >funding of Evolution development and reassigned its (formerly Novell) >Evolution developers elsewhere. > >That leaves just myself, Milan Crha and Dan Vrátil (all Red Hatters). >However Dan is in the process transitioning over to Red Hat's KDE team, >leaving myself and Milan as the only remaining full time developers for >the moment. > >Red Hat does have an open position in the Brno, Czech Republic office >for a new full-time Evolution developer [1], if anyone is interested. > >Unfortunately this staff reduction caused a few software causalities: > >* Evolution-GroupWise is now unmaintained and will not see a 3.6 > release. The SUSE team had been maintaining this prior to their > reassignment, and unfortunately we just don't have adequate resources > to keep it going. If anyone would like to take over maintainership, > I'd be happy to assist with getting the module back up to speed. > >* Evolution-Exchange is also cut for the same reasons. That's the old > Ximian Connector, which talks to Exchange 2003 via Outlook Web Access > but doesn't work with Exchange 2007 or later. > > For Exchange integration, most of our development focus is now on the > Exchange Web Services module (Evolution-EWS), but Evolution-MAPI is > still being maintained since it works with Exchange 2003 as well as > 2007 and 2010. > > With only two full-time developers left, we just felt that maintaining > three different Microsoft Exchange backends was getting ridiculous and > was not the best use of our time. > >No worries though, we will soldier on. > >Matthew Barnes > > >[1] >http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2012/09/13/interested-in-joining-the-red-hat-desktop-team-here-in-brno/ > > >_______________________________________________ >evolution-list mailing list >[email protected] >To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
