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Evolution 2.6.0 released

Submitted by stro on Tue, 2006-03-14 13:21. Evolution

The Evolution Team is pleased to announce the release of Evolution
2.6.0.

What is new in 2.6?

Memo Component
New Look for the Event/Task/Meeting Editor
Calendar Publishing support
CalDAV support
Network Manager support
HULA connectivity support
Improved GroupWise support
Improved Event Recurrence support
Calendar Tooltips
CSV/tab importers for Mozilla, Outlook and Evolution formats
Contact list support for LDAP addressbooks
Support for saving Advanced Searches for Address books
Support for Prioritizing messages in the composer
Lots of bug fixes and lots of other User Interface Improvements

Where can I get it?

You can find the tarballs here :

http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/evolution/2.6/evolution-2.6.0.tar.bz2
http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/evolution-data-server/1.6/evolution-data-server-1.6.0.tar.bz2
http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/evolution-exchange/2.6/evolution-exchange-2.6.0.tar.bz2
http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/gtkhtml/3.10/gtkhtml-3.10.0.tar.bz2
http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/libsoup/2.2/libsoup-2.2.91.tar.bz2

Reporting Bugs

If you have problems with 2.6.0, please take the time to submit the bug
using Bug Buddy or at http://bugzilla.gnome.org. Try to fill in as
much detail as you can regarding the circumstances that lead to the
problem.

Kindly check if your bug has been reported before by using the
search functionality of Bugzilla.

More information is available at the project website
http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution
and the project wiki :
http://go-evolution.org/

Why is Evolution part of GNOME?

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2006-03-15 16:24.

I started playing with Evolution back in the 0.* days. It was the time that you couldn't click three times in the application without crashing it. Since then it improved tremendously and I enjoyed using it.

Today however, I don't use Evolution anymore because for me Gmail does everything I need. It is powerful and flexible (the labels are very similar to Evolution's "vfolders") and at the same time I don't need to worry anymore about storage and backups.

As a long time GNOME user it really bugs me that Evolution became part of the GNOME desktop a few years ago. So, consider this post as a formal protest. Face it. Evolution is not a required component. It is a full-blown end-user application. In my opinion, only smaller modules should be part of GNOME only if they are required for most applications or an obvious default choice (e.g. I would be able to accept mono being adopted as an official GNOME module because f-spot and beagle are clearly gathering momentum in the community). If I uninstall Evolution, my GNOME desktop still runs fine. Also Evolution's development being mostly in Novell's hands is not a good thing for a (supposedly) community project. They can't be neutral and focus on what's good for GNOME versus good for Novell's own agenda. I still believe it was a pure political move.

Ideally, Evolution should be split into smaller applications which may be closely integrated but able to function standalone. AFAIK this is not possible today. Then Evolution wouldn't be that monolithic application anymore. This would also open up the road for fair competition with those Evolution components for other applications. Currently, that's not possible and I'm afraid this is stiffling innovation already.

Evolution is bloated right now and I don't need to see the e-mail component if I just want to use a calendar application (unfortunately GNOME calendar was ditched a long time ago).

So please, either drop it from GNOME's official module list or Novell should split it up in smaller (standalone) applications. It's not because Outlook throws all that functionality in one application that GNOME must equally do so. Novell won't be able to promote Evolution as an Outlook killer after that but then again, why does GNOME need that?

Yours truly,
Anonymous George.

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