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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?"
That he's naked! The clothes aren't actually invisible.
Now that is evolved.
It's OK, Slashdot has done a remarkable job of censoring anything that I have been trying to see.
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Although Evolution is comparable to Outlook in many ways, it is not for everybody. Take fundamental Christians, for example. To them, Evolution doesn't exist. :)
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
As long as they don't give me my Emacs-style keybindings back, I don't care about no eyecandy!
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"Linux 9.0", eh?
You're not gonna get much love around here, Bob. What is it, RedHat 9, Mandrake 9.0?
The current stable Linux version is 2.4.20. Don't confuse the Linux kernel with your GNU/Linux distribution of choice.
Cheers,
André
If you're willing to go for one more word, you could actually sound intelligent. How about, "Mozilla doesn't have a calendar," instead? Also, since it's irrelevant (and impossible?) for Mozilla to have or be a machine in which cloth or paper is made smooth and glossy by being pressed through rollers, I fixed your misspelling of "calendar".
Than Lotus Notes's Interface. Oh the horror, the humanity!
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Anyone notice in the screen shot listed above most of the email is msn spam?
I just resolved today that I *am* going to get around to writing my own email client after the bloody thing stopped working...
Zawinski's Law: Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
Kaa
Kaa's Law: In any sufficiently large group of people most are idiots.
oooooohhhhh (groan).
Sounds you got one of those self spanking monkey's I heard about...
Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel.
I'm not going to use it until feature complete!!
What for? Are there still people using Windows?
Although still in development and a bit buggy, it includes the basic functionality. I have been using it for a couple of months now.
;)
You were right about the buggy bit, it's only the 14th you know; you've been using it for two WEEKS not months...
... I guess
Most ISPs do spam filtering these days. Users demand it.
Spam is put in a special IMAP folder rather than being deleted outright, so you can double check if you want. This is the same thing you get with a client side spam filter, right?
I'd rather have client side spam filtering than not, I agree, but I still think the ideal place to do it is on the server side.
Given that I was planning to work in Java anyway, that looks pretty cool, I'll check it out. Thanks! Bitching on slashdot DOES pay off!
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Trying to download these images reminds me of when I practically had to whistle into my phone to check my mail.
Thank god for progress...and Slashdot's nostagia-inducing ServerPain(TM).
So why smudge the guy's email address in the top pane of the address book, but leave his email and PHONE NUMBER in the bottom? :^)
BSD's demon isn't offensive, it's a play on words, and ask most people it's the cutest logo for a computer system they've seen. It's a sad state of affairs when a monkey (Ximian, get it?) is offensive. It's just a logo, and quite an apt one. I assume you approve of the Debian swirl thing, as long as they don't include Tux, as I see you don't seem to like penguins. Sure it can't be construed as offensive without some serious thought, but what does it mean, how does it symbolize the Debian Project? And why stop there? What about the Enron 'E', its a little crooked, seems we should have known they were up to something, or IBM's, I mean with those parts missing, my god its down right shady, should I not trust IBM's products now? The logo for MS windows isn't non-cultural as you say because they wanted to appeal to a large audience but because it's a Window, it made sense. Apples is an apple because, well the Steve's didn't think that a pomegranate would be a good image for a company named Apple, oh and notice that little Byte out of it, see humor, something it seems you lack. A logo should be something that embodies the entity it represents, while ideally being something that is easily recognizable. The people obviously have a thing about monkeys, who else would choose the word Ximian for their project, or mono for a C# implementation. They like monkeys, it's their project name, so obviously their logo is also a monkey. The BSD's demon is humor along the same lines as Apples, so it makes perfect sense to those who use it. If you want to deprive yourself of good software because a monkey scares you, that's up to you, but these logos and images do encompass the projects they represent, and for those who know, for example the users, they make sense
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