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 From : Sergey Lentsov                       2:4615/71.10   29 Nov 2001  17:11:08
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    Playing with Evolution. The second release candidate for Evolution 1.0
    was [37]announced last week. Evolution is at the core of Ximian's
    effort to produce a better Linux desktop, so we thought it was worth a
    close look. Here's a first set of impressions.
    
    Evolution is an integrated tool handling a number of desktop tasks:
      * Electronic mail
      * Calendar management
      * Contact management
        
    The idea is, of course, that these three activities are closely tied
    to each other, and the supporting tools should reflect that.
    
    The first time a user runs the application, a short series of dialog
    windows is presented, allowing the user to configure the application.
    Mostly it has to do with how to send and retrieve mail. Evolution can
    handle POP/IMAP servers, local mail spools, and qmail "maildir"
    directories. It can also import mail setups from elm or Netscape, and
    address information from GnomeCard. It would be nice if it could bring
    in calendar entries from ical, if that capability does exist, it isn't
    obvious how to access it.
    
    The mail client is fully featured, at least from the point of view of
    certain classes of users. The interface is completely graphical, of
    course, with lots of mousing required to do most tasks. The usual mail
    client activities - reading, sending, foldering, printing, etc. - are
    well supported.
    
    MIME mail, of course, is thoroughly implemented, helpful for those of
    us who get lots of family pictures in the mail ([38]screenshot). Also
    supported is HTML mail - your spam never looked better. The Evolution
    designers felt that HTML mail support was crucial, but they have taken
    a cautious approach to it. The client will not send HTML mail unless
    explicitly configured to do so; there is also a feature in the contact
    manager which can enable or disable HTML mail on a per-recipient
    basis. If you chose to send HTML mail, there is a set of basic
    formatting options available.
    
    The HTML mail display is also, wisely, configured to never load images
    off the net; to do otherwise opens up the user to a number of privacy
    problems.
    
    Other features include a threaded mail display ([39]screenshot) and
    the ability to sort messages by a number of criteria. There is also a
    built-in filtering capability with, of course, a graphical window for
    defining filters. The feature to set up a filter based on the current
    message is a nice one. Filters can be set up to run automatically, or
    in response to an explicit command
    
    The message search and "vfolder" capabilities make it easy to organize
    and find messages. If you're forever trying to figure out where you
    put that important note from six months ago, Evolution may make your
    life easier.
    
    On the other hand, a number of features that long-time Unix mail users
    are accustomed to are still missing. If there is any way to feed a
    message to a shell command, it's not easy to find. The "burst"
    capability from MH is a nice way to read digests, but Evolution does
    not have it. The ability to "redistribute" a message with its original
    headers is missing - though some, certainly, would consider that to be
    a positive feature. And, of course, there is no non-graphical mode - a
    pain for people who have to get at their mail over slow network links.
    
    The calendar client ([40]screenshot) is pretty much what one would
    expect. It has the usual features, including nice support for
    recurring events (though it can be a bit hard to find the first time).
    There are hooks for sharing your availability information to a group,
    thus allowing others to schedule your time without asking you. What
    fun.
    
    The contact manager ([41]screenshot) is a fairly straightforward
    address book database. It comes thoughtfully preloaded with Ximian's
    contact information. There does not, however, appear to be any
    straightforward way of creating a contact entry from a mail message;
    one must start from the beginning and type it all in.
    
    A few glitches remain. There appears, for example, to be no
    deterministic way of knowing when Evolution will actually figure out
    that new mail has arrived. It also has shown a bit of a tendency to
    leave behind stray processes, with names like "wombat," when it exits.
    But, as a whole, it seems quite solid and well developed. It may not
    be the Linux guru's preferred mail system, but the pointy-haired boss
    will probably like it. Evolution is a high-quality contribution to the
    free software community.
    
    Dmitry Sklyarov update. Remember Dmitry? He's still in trouble.... A
    case conference was held on November 26, with a few outcomes of
    interest. In particular, it appears that the defense will be mounting
    a constitutional challenge against the DMCA, among other tactics. That
    increases the importance of this case (except, of course, for Dmitry
    and family, who certainly found it important enough already). A
    successful constitutional challenge could go a long way toward
    eliminating the DMCA problem.
    
    It will take a while to find out, though, as the wheels of the justice
    system grind slowly along. The pre-trial hearings start in March,
    2002; if the case continues, the date for the real trial will be set
    on April 15. So a real resolution of this case (without appeals and
    such) isn't likely before the (northern hemisphere) summer.
    
    Inside this LWN.net weekly edition:
      * [42]Security: Open Web Application Security Project, Postfix fix,
        wu-ftpd fixes, pmake format string bug.
      * [43]Kernel: The new development series begins.
      * [44]Distributions: BRaiLleSPEAK; OpenNA Linux.
      * [45]Development: GNU Scientific Library 1.0, High Availability
        Summary, BusyBox 0.60.2, Boodler sonic wallpaper, Galeon 1.0, KDE
        2.2.2, Python books.
      * [46]Commerce: We speak about free software; Red Hat's answer to
        the Microsoft settlement offer.
      * [47]History: No history this week.
      * [48]Letters: GNU-Darwin for the x86, SourceForge, Bug Reports,
        Stallman, The folly of slowing down.
        
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