On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Tom Davies <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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 > > > > Thanks for the info , :) -- -- Masekela Walls Web Security Analyst | Senior Server Administrator Powserve.com / Gemini ISP Networks -- 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
