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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?"

13 of 395 comments (clear)

  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.

    3. Re:no spam filter? by Zuke8675309 · · Score: 5, Informative

      The beauty of POPfile is not that it is a spam filter. In fact, it's not a spam filter. POPfile is an email sorter/classifier. Subtle difference, but very important. You can train POPfile to sort email into "buckets" or categories of your own creation. Of course, one of those categories will be spam - it's just that catching spam isn't the *only* thing that POPfile does and that is why it's far superior than other spam filters. At work, I have about 8 different buckets set up that my email sorts into based on content. AWESOME for keeping your incoming email organized and keeping the spam all to itself.

  2. XImian's logo looks like a self-spanking monkey. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now that is evolved.

  3. Evolution not for everybody by UnknowingFool · · Score: 5, Funny

    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. :)

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    Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
    1. Re:Evolution not for everybody by mblase · · Score: 5, Funny

      Actually, most fundamentalist Christians who are informed about such things will say that it's only macroevolution which they disbelieve. Which, I suppose, means you have to execute it using a mouse click instead of a keyboard shortcut.

  4. 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
  5. Not yet ... by BillsPetMonkey · · Score: 5, Informative

    When evolution supports multibyte characters - that's when it will surpass outlook. Seriously - I use Japanese and English email and as soon as I tried migrating to Evolution all my email just &#"%"#%\'"&#%\%"'&%!>('$

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    "It's not your information. It's information about you" - John Ford, Vice President, Equifax
  6. Re:Outlook 2003 by fava · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anyone notice in the screen shot listed above most of the email is msn spam?

  7. Re:clothes? by Kaa · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    Kaa
    Kaa's Law: In any sufficiently large group of people most are idiots.
  8. Mirror: http://acm.cs.nyu.edu/~tugrul/evo2/ by tugrul · · Score: 5, Informative

    Calendar
    Tasks
    Mail
    Contacts
    Shrunken Navbar

  9. Evolution Screenshots cache / mirror of mockups by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I have a mirror / cache of the mockup screenshots. Not all of them are up there yet but I'll put them up as soon as I get them

    evo2_contacts.png
    evo2_calendar.png
    evo2_mail.png
    evo2_tasks.png
    evo2_navbar_shrunk.png