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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?"
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Sweet! Oh man, I can't wait for usotsuki to post a reply to this! I'm really looking forward to some usotsuki style insight. I hope usotsuki is modded way up to at least a +4 so his post gets archived for other usotsuki enthusiasts! I think I'll go run an Apple ][ emulator!
usotsuki!
This was posted on Gnomedesktop.org like two days ago.
I've been using Evolution for the past couple years and I'm giving some thought to making the move back to Kmail or even to ..gulp... Mozilla for my email client because Evolution is just butt slow. Butt slow. I'm using version 1.2 that comes with Linux 9.0 and it's slow. I really hope they are working on optimizing the code as well as making it look good because as it stands now you're not going to wow anyone who is using Outlook (which isn't blazing fast by any means) into switching.
All the best,
--Bob
Google cache of screen shots
Evolution lost me in two steps. First Ximian started making arbitrary design changes (read: removal of functionality) in their mail interface that seemed to go against what their users wanted; at least if the bugzilla reports are any indication. Then, they more or less stood still while Mozilla Mail - and now Thunderbird - caught up and passed them.
I know Ximian has some very clever people, but they have to relearn the fact that users are their reason for existence. Mozilla's not perfect in that regard either, but they do a darn sight better job of it than Ximian does.
#DeleteChrome
Studies find that the more educated one is, the more likely they are to believe in Evolution, on average. Fundamentalist Christians are not relevant.
The functionality may be improved, but those screenshots are the most bland I've ever seen.
I'm not saying the interface should be all rainbow colored, but come on! Everything is grey!