Ximian Evolution's New Clothes

Lispy writes "Looks like everyone's favorite graphical email client, Ximian Evolution, will get a new interface with the upcoming release. I found a posting on the Evolution hackers bulletin board which leads to some mocked-up screenshots (here: calendar, tasks, mail, contacts and one of the shrunken navbar). Although this is mostly eyecandy, this could be the right time to make yourself heard. What do you think about a maturing Evolution that goes its own way and leaves the Outlook-like interface behind?"

Comments

Still not up to par...

[Fux the Pengiun]

Looks nice! Definate improvement over the old style...but the bar's been raised already. Man, I wish KDE could get with it and really make a LEAP. Not just eye-candy. Not just new window-dressing. Something actually different and innovating , not just playing catchup to whatever Microsoft and Apple are putting out. Check the bulletin board post and see their changelog:

• Killed the tree view -- you can only see one folder at a time now
• Multiple calender view & web calenders
• New ability to morph viral web services in real-time
• Improved icons for more user-friendly operation
• Support to orchestrate seamless e-services

The new graphics are nice and all, but the rest of that Outlook has had since 2000! We need innovation to beat Micro$oft, not just pretty widget to click to kill time.

[/rant] sorry if I got a little carried away there...