Re: [Evolution-hackers] Evolution Ideas for Future

["Francisco Javier F." <serrador arrakis es>]

I think that an auto-prunning feature on mail folders will be cool to
automate the deletion of old email.

El s?, 12-07-2003 a las 19:59, Rodney Dawes escribió:
> Hi,
> 
> I just read this article and would like to comment on the individual
> ideas. Some of them are pretty good. Others are OK, but have some
> simple flaws. I'll take their ideas in order, as they come. :)
> 
> 1) Floating PIM Pane
> 
> 	This is something we definately need. It shouldn't really be
> 	"in" the application, per se, so much as a separate tiny desktop
> 	app, itself. Something more akin to Konfabulator/Karamba would
> 	be great. It would be a quick easy way to see what appointments
> 	and tasks you have for the day, as well as perhaps a quick
> 	summary of the amount of mail you have in selected folders. Or
> 	perhaps this could also be integrated as a module for GKrellm.
> 
> 2) Split-view Message List
> 
> 	Not sure why they say "in-box" here. Inbox is the correct 	english, and
> is a special folder, so unless you are dealing with
> 	multiple IMAP accounts that aren't just converged into the same
> 	"Inbox", such as Mail.app on OSX does things. This would
> 	probably be a good thing for Evoluton to do as well, and would
> 	simplify the UI a whole lot. Adding multiple trees for e-mail
> 	folders at the top of the UI would not be hard to do, but could
> 	be rather ueseless without the new-style Outlook list widget.
> 
> 3) Built-in Instant Messaging
> 
> 	This really doesn't belong in a groupware client. The proper
> 	thing to do, would be to provide the necessary integration with
> 	an external IM client. Or, more preferrably, have a standard way
> 	of doing the integration so that any external IM client could be
> 	integrated. Shoving more crap in an already large and bulky UI
> 	is typically a surefire way to scare people off. Though, most of
> 	the things that are talked about here, could be done with an
> 	external app for IM. I'm surprised that Video Conferencing isn't
> 	mentioned here. It seems like something that would be very
> 	useful, and should be integrated as well... For what it's worth,
> 	I'm working on an IM client, specifically designed for total
> 	integration with Evolution, as well as working with the
> 	GnomeMeeting hackers to integrate with it, and to integrate it
> 	with some of the functionality in Evolution.
> 
> 4) Calendar-linked Auto-reply
> 
> 	This sounds really neat. I would love to see something like this
> 	go into Evolution. It probably wouldn't be very hard to do,
> 	either, especially with the calendar abstraction and nice
> 	filters.
> 
> 5) Integrated PGP Encryption
> 
> 	Evolution already does most of what is mentioned here. What we
> 	really need is to integrate key management into the addressbook,
> 	and maybe integrate some of the existing stuff a little better.
> 	This would make it pretty easy to manage keychains and encrypt
> 	and decrypt mail quickly and with the right keys.
> 
> 6) Spam Auto-reporting
> 
> 	Evolution can be integrated very easily with spamassassin which
> 	can do pretty much everything listed here. The only place where
> 	an issue of integration stands, is with providing a nice UI to
> 	do the Bayesian classification, and manual spam reporting, as
> 	well as white/black-listing addresses and things. Though I would
> 	love to see us get some UI in for this, with a backend
> 	abstraction, to allow those people who want to use bogofilter or
> 	something else, for their filtering. It would not be that hard
> 	to do, either.
> 
> 7) Mouseover Contact Information
> 
> 	Adding the ability to pop up a tooltip with basic information
> 	from a VCard, when the mouse is over an address in the "Sender"
> 	column is pretty simple. Extending on what was said in the
> 	article, we could pull a VCard attachment from the mail, if the
> 	person is not in your addressbook, and the mail has a vcard
> 	attachment.
> 
> 8) Smart E-Mail Notification
> 
> 	This is something that I hope I can do some things for, for the
> 	2.0 release of Evolution. The ideas in this article, are
> 	something that would be easy to do. The "Important" thing,
> 	depends on the mailer getting support for priority flag headers,
> 	though. Hopefully, I can get an external app to handle this,
> 	written pretty soon.
> 
> 9) All-powerful Right-clicking
> 
> 	Evolution already does pretty much all of this. Evolution also
> 	has VFolders, which doesn't actually move the mail, so the
> 	menus are more bulky than typical. Even without the VFolders,
> 	the context menus are still pretty large. I think it a better
> 	idea to work on simplifying the UI as much as possible. The
> 	context menus can still be powerful, even without as much stuff
> 	in them.
> 
> 10) Easy-access Message Templates
> 
> 	The e-mail templates in Evolution currently are only available
> 	for HTML e-mail, and you can't add your own, IIRC. Solving these
> 	issues, adding the ability to do the stuff mentionend here,
> 	would be pretty easy.
> 
> Bonus) P2P Document Sharing
> 
> 	This is probably done better with some combination/integration
> 	method with Rendezvous, MultiSync, and possible one of the open
> 	p2p protocols.
> 
> -- dobey
> 
> On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 15:55, Chris Woodruff wrote:
> > I am new to the Evolution Hackers group and have been quietly reading all
> > the posts for the last couple of months.  In this time I have been trying to
> > find time to ramp up on Evolution development and standards.  I had this
> > link saved from a while ago and thought it might have a few good points on
> > the perfect email/PIM client.  Hope it helps.  I am also hoping to find a
> > place in this project soon.  If anyone has any suggestions drop me an email.
> > 
> > http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-3513_7-5020956-1.html?legacy=cnet
> > 
> > Chris Woodruff
> > cwoodruff openpenguin com
> 
> 
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