Re: [Evolution] Evolution Status

[Damon Chaplin <damon helixcode com>]

Shalon Wood wrote:
> Ok, I got evolution to compile. Next question: how much funtionality
> should I be seeing? I get the main gui screen, but there's nothing in
> any of the menus except for file, and the toolbar shortcuts don't do
> anything. Given the amount of stuff that gets compiled, and what it
> looks like, I expected more, or am I expecting too much?

You need recent versions of lots of Gnome packages - I had to install
ORBit 0.5.1, and bonobo, gdk-pixbuf, gnome-print & gtkhtml from CVS.
(I also upgraded to gnome-libs 1.0.58 but I don't know if that matters.)
Otherwise the Bonobo components dump core on start-up so you don't
see anything.

I can now see the mail component (which even lists messages if you
place an mbox-format file in ~/evolution/folders/inbox), and the
calendar and contacts component (which don't seem to work yet.)

A lot of functionality hasn't been integrated with the shell yet.
And there's still a lot to do.

Damon