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Evolution 1.5 (unstable) released

Submitted by stro on Mon, 2003-12-08 15:27. Evolution

JP Rosevear wrote:
As per our Grand Plan (TM) Evolution 1.5 has been released in time for the GNOME 2.5.1 development release. Snapshots are also available through Red Carpet for 5 platforms including SuSE 9 and RedHat 9.

Be sure to check out the Evolution code blog/blog archives to see all of the cool stuff that is being done to make Evolution rock even harder!

Download the following:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/evolution/1.5/evolution-1.5.tar.gz
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtkhtml/3.1/gtkhtml-3.1.4.tar.gz
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gal/2.1/gal-2.1.1.tar.gz
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/evolution-data-server/0.0/evolution-data-server-0.0.3.tar.gz
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libsoup/2.1/libsoup-2.1.2.tar.gz

Upgrade Notes:
Evolution 1.5 can be installed at the same time as 1.4.x. However note
that there are still some bugs migrating data from 1.4.x to 1.5 and that
1.5 stores its information in ~/.evolution rather than ~/evolution/ so
that if you add new info in 1.5 in will not show up in 1.4.x.

What Has Changed:
Evolution 1.5 has fixed some major architectural issues and sees the
splitting out of the addressbook, calendar and task data access into a
separate library for other projects to use. Shell components are now
much more simplified.

We have also untangled the GUI quite a bit making the components (mail,
tasks, etc) more individual and improving the usage experience for the
user.

Reporting Bugs

The main purpose of this release is, of course, to gather as much
testing as possible from users. Your help in testing and submitting bugs
as you find them is highly appreciated.

If Evolution 1.5 crashes, please take the time to submit the bug using
Bug Buddy, trying to fill in as much detail as you can regarding the
circumstances that lead to the crash.

If, on the other hand, you find a problem in the behavior or the
appearance of the application, please go to http://bugzilla.ximian.com/
to use our Bugzilla interface to report the bug.

You can also 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

Re: Evolution 1.5 (unstable) released

Submitted by Anonymous George on Mon, 2003-12-08 18:58.

While I can definitely appreciate the need to change the old layout from the blatant Outlook clone and for other reasons, the new layout is extraordinarily ugly. Not only is it ugly, it really doesn't seem to have improved usability much. The main ugliness and ui train wreck comes from the buttons for selecting the compenent that seem like they were just dumped in the lower left corner. Really ugly. No indication that they select a whole new function and ui component. Things like sidebars, tree views, etc at least are attractive and set off in a way that indicates their special role in the ui. I really hope that layout is nowhere near the final version.

Also, I heard that IMAP backend was being totally rewritten for this new version but IMAP still does not work for me although it works fine in Balsa and Mozilla Mail.

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