Re: [Evolution-hackers] Call for Release Notes

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 10:15 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 11:32 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote:
> > Hey Murray,
> > 
> > On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 18:36 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > > Evolution developers, please do try to find the time for this. You
> > > deserve that the world knows about your hard work.
> > >  
> >  I have added everything to release notes wiki page. Sorry, I was
> > confused with
> > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2007-July/msg00173.html and just updated to Roadmap only.
> 
> Thanks. I didn't realise that you had updated the RoadMap. Not everybody
> has done that.
> 
> So, we have the following:
> 
> > * Improved SPAM filtering with plugable junk filters 
> 
> How is this different to before, from the user's point of view? I
> thought we always had SpamAssassin and BogoFilter plugins.
> 
> > * Backup restore support
> 
> What does this actually allow the user to do?
> 
> > * Improved e-mail notification 
> 
> Is this just about the notification area icon? By the way, I notice that
> you can't turn that off from the main preferences - you have to disable
> the plugin, when you know that it's a plugin.
> 
> > * Improved Gtk+ Printing support for mails 
> 
> What does the "improvement" look like to the user?
> 
> > * System Timezone Integration 
> 
> Does this mean that evolution no longer asks the user for their timezone
> at first use? Are there any other user-noticeable changes?
> 
> > * Attachment reminder for message composer
> 
> Could you tell us more about this? What does it do, and when?
> 
> > * Evolution Exchange
> >  * Better offline support
> 
> How is this noticeable? Is it just a performance improvement, or has the
> behaviour changed? I mean, how would the user notice this?
> >  * Delegation support
> 
> This allows you to forward your emails to a colleague while you are
> away, right? Do you have a screenshot of that preference for us, using
> the standard clearlooks theme? Not many of us are running exchange.

And these items were just added:
"
 * Magic space bar support
 * FACE header and Contact image in preview pane
 * Calendar Search improvements
"

They really need details so we can describe what the user will
experience differently to the old evolution version.

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