FootNotes - Evolution

UI Improvements in Evolution 2.8

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:10:31 -0400

Srinivasa Ragavan wrote: Four months, in GNOME 2.16 cycle, We have added a lot of UI improvements to Evolution to make it look much better. Not just features and lot of bug fixes too!!! I have blogged them in parts. Im summarising all of them...

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New Evolution patch reduces memory by 40-60MB

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:45:37 -0400

Philip Van Hoof wrote: "Here are the patches to get the upstream version of evolution-data-server and evolution-exchange to start using the mmap technique for loading the header and content info summary data of Evolution and tinymail.

I expect it to reduce memory usage of Evolution with approximately fourty to sixty megabytes of ram, depending on the amount of folders you have."

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Evolution 2.6.0 released

Tue, 14 Mar 2006 13:26:42 -0500

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

Evolution compiles on Windows

Thu, 09 Jun 2005 13:49:23 -0400

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.

Outlook vs Evolution vs Kontact: an e-mail client comparison

Wed, 18 May 2005 16:57:24 -0400

We've put together a series of side-by-side screen shots of Outlook 2003, Evolution 2.2.1.1 and Kontact 1.1 as a visual comparison of these three groupware rivals.

A couple of excellent open source Outlook alternatives are available which provide similar and additional features, such as Novell Evolution and KDE Kontact. If you're afraid you won't have Outlook to keep you organized in a Linux environment, you need not fear. The following screen shots show how far the open source alternatives have come.

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Evolution gets EPlugins

Wed, 23 Mar 2005 09:01:13 -0500

The EPlugin system introduced in Evolution 2.2, exists to provide modular extensions to Evolution by providing a simple, practical, language-neutral approach to extending the Evolution groupware suite. Thanks to EPlugins, users of Evolution can have extended functionality and developers can easily enhance Evolution with minimal effort.

EPlugin's goals:

* Provide a language independent invocation mechanism
* Allow extension of parts of the user interface and processing elements
* Require minimal extra or foreign code to implement in the core application
* Require minimal interface code to implement the extensions

Nine tips for filtering messages in Novell Evolution

Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:14:53 -0500

NewsForge puts together this guide to help new Evolution users do one thing: filter the mail. Here is a brief overview of filtering and nine tips to help you take advantage of Evolution's sophisticated filtering capabilities.

The Hula Project

Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:06:50 -0500

Nat wrote: Today we are thrilled to be launching Hula, a new project to build an open source mail and calendar server. Hula is a really exciting project already in part because we think that we can fill a hitherto-unclaimed spot in the stack of open source applications and in part because we've "primed the pump" by basing it on an existing, functioning codebase: a Novell product called NetMail. NetMail already runs millions of calendars and mailboxes. And so we're starting off with the mundane work of building a functioning server done, leaving us to focus on creating interesting new functionality.

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New releases of Evolution available

Wed, 08 Dec 2004 16:57:50 -0500

New stable and development releases of Evolution are now available....

Evolution 2.0.2 released!

Wed, 20 Oct 2004 06:09:47 -0400

Evolution 2.0.2 is out! Information below..

get the source:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/evolution/2.0/evolution-2.0.2.tar.bz2

read changes/news:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/evolution/2.0/evolution-2.0.2.news

Go evo team :-)

Evolution 2.0.1 released

Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:05:12 -0400

The Evolution Team exuberantly announces the release of Evolution 2.0.1 ...

Evolution 2.0.0 release notes

Tue, 21 Sep 2004 14:54:06 -0400

In accordance with our Grand Plan (TM), the Evolution Team is pleased to
announce Evolution 2.0.0 has been released to coincide with GNOME 2.8
Download the following............

Net Integration Technologies releases Evolution connector for ExchangeIt!

Sat, 26 Jun 2004 06:25:46 -0400

Net Integration Technologies has released a plugin that allows users of Evolution to connect to a Nitix server running their ExchangeIt! software, which enables the sharing of calendars, contacts, and tasks lists. This complements the already-released ExchangeIt! plugin for Microsoft Outlook.

For more information (and screenshots!), please see here:

http://open.nit.ca/wiki/index.php?page=ExchangeItEvolution

Source is available under the terms of the GPL at the same site.

Ximian Connector released under GPL

Tue, 11 May 2004 15:07:43 -0400

Novell today announced its Connector for Microsoft* Exchange Server will be integrated into EvolutionTM 2.0 and made available as open source, beginning today with the current Connector 1.4. Evolution is Novell's award-winning e-mail and workgroup client for Linux* systems and is the most widely used collaboration suite on Linux. Evolution Connector allows Microsoft Exchange Server 2000/2003 users to easily manage their e-mail, calendars, group schedules, address books, public folders and tasks from Linux desktops.

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Evolution 1.5.7 released

Wed, 21 Apr 2004 17:00:30 -0400

A new unstable release of Evolution is now available. Features include a new contact editor, better error dialogs, improved drag-n-drop, more instant apply goodness, and much more