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Evolution compiles on Windows

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2005-06-07 21:52. Evolution
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Novell has managed to compile Evolution for the Windows platform. The build is currently extremely unstable though, with Novell senior software engineer Tor Lillqvist stating: "You cannot run Evolution on Windows yet ... there isn't anything for end-users to beta-test yet." Lillqvist stated he can start serious debugging work from this point.

Update: Here is a screenshot and here.

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Great news by Anonymous George

Needs to be "un-bloated" first..

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2005-06-09 12:26.

Evolution is so bloated. Now it's getting ported to windows _before_ it's cleaned up.
I stopped using Evolution when version 2.0 was released. I was hopping it was a lil faster, but.. SO MUCH SLOWER. :-(
Also, it used to be a pain in the ass to backup data.

Why haven't it improved in those areas?
I'm a happy Thunderbird user now, but, I wouldn't have switched to it if it was a tad bit faster and IF I could backup my stuff correctly.

Fast for me on old computer

Submitted by digitect on Fri, 2005-06-10 11:21.

Evo is fast enough for me on a P3-450. My wife and I have been using it for a year with no problems. This is Fedora Core, currently version 3.

P3-450?

Submitted by knipknap on Fri, 2005-06-10 11:41.

Hmm, here, on a P3, 800 MHz with 512 MB RAM it is noticably slow at least. But especially the ressource requirement problems are known and already being worked on, there is also the Google bounty. So yes, there is a lot of room for improvements.

UI-wise, there is still a lot todo IMO (compare it with Apple's Mail program, e.g.), but I believe the latest release already improved the menu a bit.

Are you implying that Evolution for Linux is somehow stable ? by Anonymous George

I don't understand...

Submitted by msevior on Fri, 2005-06-10 06:26.

I leave evolution running for *weeks* at a time. (I never log out coz I'd lose the scroll back on Xchat. I like to see what has happened on #abiword while I'm away).

The spam-assassin based spam filtering works very well. It gets rid of about 98% of my spam, with zero false positives (so far).

It's very stable on my FC3 box, searches are blinding fast, opens MS Word docs with AbiWord and is altogether a really impressive piece of
software.

Martin

Maybe it's just your machine?

Submitted by WareKala on Thu, 2005-06-09 08:59.

I'm quite happy with most of my desktop components. Yesterday epiphany crashed on me, but I can pretty much understand it; I was compiling stuff at the same, had an NFS mount and I lost network connection temporarily. Apart from that, I can't even remember the last time something had crashed. Evolution is rock solid, though I haven't tested all of it's features as I don't need anything more than just e-mail and calendar. So, I can say atleast that in me experience Evolution is stable =)

Btw, I'm using it under Gnome, not KDE, and I'm happily running Gentoo =)
-WareKala

Did I say KDE ? by Anonymous George

Uhh

Submitted by WareKala on Thu, 2005-06-09 10:18.

I just assumed you were using KDE since you mentioned it and that you were using Kontact, which sounds like a KDE application. My bad if I was wrong, nevertheless no need to get pissed off o_O And I didn't say that evolution is more stable under Gnome than under KDE. Just mentioned it since I thought you used KDE..
-WareKala

What distro

Submitted by murraycu on Thu, 2005-06-09 05:39.

What distro is this?

Why does it matter ? by Anonymous George

Because your reported experience run counter to others here

Submitted by msevior on Fri, 2005-06-10 17:36.

And we were wondering why that is so. It is certainly true evo runs for weeks on end on my machine.

Even first screenshots of Evolution on Windows by Anonymous George

Native Widgets?

Submitted by knipknap on Thu, 2005-06-09 06:26.

I always thought that Gtk uses native widgets on W32, but apparently that isn't so. Or is this only some preliminary UI that will be replaced by a native one later?

Native UI

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2005-06-09 06:41.

No, but there is a GTK theme which is made to closely mimick windows look and feel called gtk-wimp.

closely mimick because it _us

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2005-06-09 08:50.

closely mimick because it _uses_ the native widgets :)

Clarification: It does use na

Submitted by jone1941 on Fri, 2005-06-10 11:03.

Clarification: It does use native widgets for XP, but not for previous versions of windows.

Despite that it just doesn't by Anonymous George

Cool

Submitted by WareKala on Thu, 2005-06-09 00:23.

Nice to see some free and good applications running on multiple OSs', though I won't be needing the windozer version =D Didn't take Tor long to get it running.

Btw, geesh windozer is hideous =P
-WareKala

built in spam filter

Submitted by Idimmu on Wed, 2005-06-08 18:46.

i really hope they build in a thunderbird style spamfilter, that would be totally awesome

T-Bird spam filter is bad by Anonymous George

Sweet...

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2005-06-08 13:57.

This is a very promising milestone for such a great product! I'm sure that there are hundreds/thousands of Windows users out there in the community who share in my excitement at such news.

I saw the headline and had to do a double-take, thinking I may have misread it. Great job Tor! And great job Evolution team!

I hope this means what I think it means

Submitted by nullity on Wed, 2005-06-08 13:34.

Could this mean Novell is planning on replacing the (absolutely horrible) Groupwise client for Windows with Evolution?

The University for which I admin uses Groupwise for all their inter-departmental communications, and many of our staff require Windows (bleh). I also installed Thunderbird on all the Windows machines as a client for our department's IMAP server. I would love to be able to replace both of them with Evolution.

Great.

Submitted by ramirez on Wed, 2005-06-08 12:46.

Is there a way to support this with funding?
This would be a very good way to bring our co-workers slowly to linux :-)

funding? by Anonymous George

yes, funding

Submitted by robla on Fri, 2005-06-10 00:02.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. Novell may be a big company, but that doesn't mean they have infinite resources. In fact, it appears as though there's one guy working on it. That may be purely by design rather than a budgetary issue, but I doubt it.

I would bet Novell wouldn't turn down an offer to hire a contractor that would work for Tor.

Rob

Well...

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2005-06-10 00:44.

It is only one guy working on the project, but that one guy is paid to work full-time by Novell.

This is great news!

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2005-06-08 12:13.

Does it run under Wine?

*Slaps* by Anonymous George
What a good news!! by Anonymous George

Very Cool

Submitted by brandonp on Wed, 2005-06-08 09:57.

This is exciting, I will be watching this development very closely. I have been wanting to replace Outlook in our organization. I needed something like Evolution on Windows to do so.

Keep up the good work, I'll gladly beta-test once it becomes more stable.

Brandon Petersen

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