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Ximian Evolution's New Clothes

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the darling-you-look-wonderful-tonight dept.

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?"

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  1. no spam filter? by tomstdenis · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Quickly checked their feature list. No automatic spam filter [as in Mozilla].

    No sale. I live off that moz filter [since it catches basically all spam I get].

    Tom

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    Someday, I'll have a real sig.
    1. Re:no spam filter? by dracvl · · Score: 5, Interesting

      One word.

      POPFile.

      You'll love it, I promise ;)

    2. Re:no spam filter? by aastanna · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Oh, I don't know. Apple's Mail.app has an integrated Baysian filter and it isn't hard to set up at all. One click to turn on training mode, then you just say "Spam" or "Not Spam" to every email that's identified incorrectly. When it stops making mistakes, one more click to go from training to actually filtering. Outlook is quite common on Windows boxes as a simple mail client, witness the popularity of spam viruses. If it wants to be an Outlook replacement how could it hurt to include such an excellent feature.

  2. Tabs not buttons by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting
    This was posted to gnomedesktop.org last week.

    I did a quick mockup of what this would look like with tabs instead of buttons.

    Some of the reasons for using tabs instead of buttons:

    • Custom tabs - User can create new tabs for access to frequently used views (replaces the shortcuts)
    • Tabs can be renamed - Allows user to specify a name that is more meaningful to them
    • Tabs can be dragged - If Anjuta2 style containers are used tags can be dragged to be reordered or even dragged off the shell into it's own application window.
    • Less screen area waisted - tabs allow clean navigation without resorting to taking up a chunk of UI
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    J5