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>    1. Re: I have problem view attach file (Jeffrey Stedfast)
>    2. retrieving pop summary (Grzesiek Sedek)
>    3. printer font (evo 1.2.4.99) (Alec Schramm)
>    4. Evolution 1.4.3 (Ettore Perazzoli)
>    5. Re: printer font (evo 1.2.4.99) (guenther)
>    6. Evolution 2.0 UI proposal (Ettore Perazzoli)
>    7. Re: Evolution 2.0 UI proposal (Steven Tryon)
>    8. Re: Evolution 2.0 UI proposal (Jason Tackaberry)
>    9. Re: Evolution 2.0 UI proposal ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>   10. Re: Evolution 2.0 UI proposal (Ettore Perazzoli)
>   11. Re: Evolution 2.0 UI proposal ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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> Message: 1
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] I have problem view attach file
> From: Jeffrey Stedfast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Scott Bronson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Armin Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> julian ramos marrero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Evolution <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Organization: Ximian, Inc.
> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 14:13:30 -0400
>
> if it is really test, then gnome-vfs should be able to detect it as a
> textual type in which case we'd be able to display it.
>
> Jeff
>
> On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 14:15, Scott Bronson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 04:34, Armin Bauer wrote:
> > > Do you have the correct mime-settings for pdf?
> >
> > Speaking of this, is there any way to get Evolution to display
> > small attachments as text, regardless of MIME type?
> >
> > I get Matlab scripts (.m) and random config files vi email
> > all the time.  Thanks to the myriad of mail clients out there,
> > who knows what the mime type is going to claim to be?
> >
> > I resent having to manually save 700-byte files to disk, then
> > open them using the open file dialog when I know that they
> > really are text!  Maybe a user-configurable limit?
> >
> > Is this at all feasible?  Should I file a feature request?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >     - Scott
> >
> >
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> Message: 2
> From: Grzesiek Sedek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Evolution Mail List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 10 Jul 2003 20:35:31 +0100
> Subject: [Evolution] retrieving pop summary
>
> Hi,
> Can anyone please tell me more about "retrieving summary" process when
> using pop account with stored messages (keep messages on server)?
> It seems that evo is actually downloading every single message!
> this is on evolution 1.4 on debian ppc, I recall that this has not been
> happening only in evo 1.3.98
> Any help appreciated. Thanks.
> G.
>
> --
> Grzesiek Sedek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Message: 3
> From: Alec Schramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: evolution list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Date: 10 Jul 2003 14:38:18 -0700
> Subject: [Evolution] printer font (evo 1.2.4.99)
>
> Can anyone tell me why emails print out in a gawd-awful script font?
> (They appear just fine on the screen.)  I can't seem to locate where
> this default is being set.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
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> Message: 4
> From: Ettore Perazzoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Evolution Hackers Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Evolution Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> GNOME Announces <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 10 Jul 2003 17:49:46 -0400
> Subject: [Evolution] Evolution 1.4.3
>
> A new bug fix version of Evolution, the GNOME groupware suite, is out.
>
> This release fixes some several problems, including some crashers, some
> memory leaks and an issue with certain buggy POP servers that caused
> mail download to not work properly.  1.4.0 users are strongly encouraged
> to upgrade.
>
> Release notes are here:
>
> http://developer.ximian.com/projects/evolution/release_notes/1.4.3.html
>
> For the record, 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 haven't been released because of some
> last-minute problems that we found while packaging them.
>
> Enjoy!
> -- Ettore
>
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> Message: 5
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] printer font (evo 1.2.4.99)
> From: guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Alec Schramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: 11 Jul 2003 00:10:25 +0200
>
>
> > Can anyone tell me why emails print out in a gawd-awful script font?
> > (They appear just fine on the screen.)  I can't seem to locate where
> > this default is being set.
>
> Seems to be this bug:
>  http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=41639
>
> The issue is, the printing font always is the first one sorted by
> alphabet of the available fonts. Should be fixed in 1.4.3.
>
> ...guenther
>
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> Message: 6
> From: Ettore Perazzoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Evolution Hackers Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Evolution Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 10 Jul 2003 18:44:26 -0400
> Subject: [Evolution] Evolution 2.0 UI proposal
>
> Hello!
>
> Here at Ximian we have been brainstorming a bit about what happens
> next in the Evolution world.  One of the ideas that has come up is a
> substantial overhaul of Evolution's UI.
>
> Since images speak better than words, here are the mockups for some
> designs that Anna has developed: (this is just to give a very rough
> idea of what it would be like; the icons and labels are not final, the
> widgets are not the real ones etc.)
>
> http://primates.ximian.com/~anna/evo2/evo2_contacts.png
> http://primates.ximian.com/~anna/evo2/evo2_calendar.png
> http://primates.ximian.com/~anna/evo2/evo2_mail.png
> http://primates.ximian.com/~anna/evo2/evo2_tasks.png
> http://primates.ximian.com/~anna/evo2/evo2_navbar_shrunk.png
>
> The most important changes are:
>
> * You no longer see all the types of folders at once.  You
>           switch between calendar, mail, tasks and contacts by
>           clicking on the buttons at the bottom.
>
> * The calendar allows you to see multiple calendar at once.
>           Also you can subscribe to web calendars and see them in the
>           pane on the left as well.
>
> There are a few reasons for us to go with this design:
>
> * It kills the all-in-one tree view, which currently makes it
>           difficult to reach for your calendar or contacts folders,
>           since they are hiding between all the various mail folders.
>           You no longer need to hunt for you calendar folder scrolling
>           through the tree to see what your schedule is like, you just
>           click on an easily accessible button marked "Calendar".
>           Much better navigation.  (Please note that, although it's
>           not obvious from the mockup, we would still have a mail
>           folder tree, the same way we have it now.  Calendar, Tasks
>           and Contacts, however, would be just flat lists.)
>
> * Killing the tree view also simplifies the architecture a
>           lot.  Right now there is a lot of machinery in place to
>           handle the tree, making sure that components don't step on
>           each other's toes.  In particular, the handling of local
>           folders is a maintenance nightmare, and also makes it very
>           hard to provide the hooks that hackers need eg. to access
>           Evolution's folders and do cool desktop integration hacks.
>
> * The shell's APIs would be drastically reduced to just
>   a couple calls and it would become a lot simpler to
>           implement new components.
>
> * This design simplification would also allow components to be
>           launched independently from each other.  We could
>           potentially even launch the shell without certain components
>           (e.g. launch only the mailer) if the user wants it that way.
>           If we wanted to have separated apps a la OS X we could
>           trivially do that too.
>
> * As I mentioned, it allows side-by-side calendar viewing,
>           which increases the usability of the calendar manyfold.
>
> On the other hand, if we go this way we are probably also going to
> drop the following features:
>
> * The summary.  While the summary is neat, there is a general
>           feeling (at least amongst the developers) that the mail and
>           calendar summaries are not tremendously useful, and that
>           weather and RDF and weather information is better suited for
>           a specialized application.  Also we are trying to reduce the
>           amount of code we have to maintain, and this seems like a
>           good candidate for trimming.
>
> * The shortcut bar.  It's been shown that only a relatively
>   small part of the Evolution user community actually uses it,
>           and we feel that it unnecessarily complicates the UI.  The
>           new design is much simpler to navigate anyways, and the
>           shortcut bar would add clutter and complexity, both in code
>           and UI.  Also, it wouldn't be easy to implement in this
>           model without keeping some of the shell's complexity that
>           we would like to get rid of.
>
> Opinions?
>
> -- Ettore
>
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>
> Message: 7
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Evolution 2.0 UI proposal
> From: Steven Tryon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: 10 Jul 2003 19:18:40 -0400
>
> Ettore,
>
> Looks good to me.  Simultaneous calendar viewing would be a helpful
> addition.  The simple list view of contacts would be a big aid in
> scanning the list.
>
> I considered the summary to be a nuisance to be avoided.  I do use the
> shortcut bar, but mostly to overcome the navigation headaches you
> described.  It would be redundant with the new layout.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
> On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 18:44, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > Here at Ximian we have been brainstorming a bit about what happens
> > next in the Evolution world.  One of the ideas that has come up is a
> > substantial overhaul of Evolution's UI.
>
> --
> Steven Tryon
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
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> Message: 8
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Evolution 2.0 UI proposal
> From: Jason Tackaberry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Ettore Perazzoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Evolution Hackers Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Evolution Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 10 Jul 2003 19:24:06 -0400
>
> On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 18:44, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> > Here at Ximian we have been brainstorming a bit about what happens
> > next in the Evolution world.  One of the ideas that has come up is a
> > substantial overhaul of Evolution's UI.
>
> Excellent!  It's really exciting to see some activity in this area.
>
> Here are my comments:
>
>       * Overall: I really like the new layout.  I agree the shortcut bar
>         isn't very useful, and it is made redundant by the new
>         navigation buttons.  Also, the only time I ever look at the
>         Summary page is when Evo is busy loading my IMAP folders.  I
>         won't miss it at all.
>
>       * It's not obvious from the mockups whether or not it will be
>         possible to collapse trees.  (i.e. I don't see any +/- button
>         there.)  Hopefully that will still be possible.
>
>       * It should be possible to reorder/remove or at least collapse the
>         top-level categories (i.e. the "On My Computer," "On
>         sensitive.org," and "Virtual Folders" that appear on the list in
>         evo_mail2.png).  In my case, I simply do not use Local Folders
>         in Evo 1.4 except to access my Calendar and Contacts.  And with
>         the proposed 2.0 UI, the "On My Computer" items would be
>         completely useless to me.  I'd rather my remote IMAP folders
>         appear at the top of that list since they are the most
>         important.
>
>       * Should the search bar at the top be labeled with "Search"?   It
>         might improve usability to have "Search for [Messages
>         Containing] <input field>" instead of "[Message Contains] <input
>         field>"
>
>       * I don't see a Clear button for the search bar.  How will that
>         work?
>
>       * In the calendar/contacts screenshots, I see a "Filter by
>         Category" list.  Will that also be available on the in the mail
>         view?
>
>       * I don't see the vertical separators in the toolbar for the mail
>         view, but I assume that's just a simple oversight.
>
>       * If you axe the Summary, you'll only have 5 navigation buttons
>         (or whatever you call them), and that will look unbalanced. :)
>
> That's it for now.  Of course I have tons and tons of features I'd like
> to see in the new Evo that will help me better manage my mail, but I
> understand this is just to discuss the UI. :)
>
> Cheers,
> Jason.
>
> --
> Jason Tackaberry  ::  [EMAIL PROTECTED]  :: 705-949-2301 x330
> Academic Computing Support Specialist
> Information Technology Services
> Algoma University College  ::  www.auc.ca
>
>
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>
> Message: 9
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Evolution 2.0 UI proposal
> To: Ettore Perazzoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Evolution Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> Evolution Hackers Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:34:46 -0700
>
>
> Ettore,
> I like the look a lot!  I liked all the layouts except the shunk nav bar.
> Maybe with text and icon it would be a little easier to use.
> I one who never uses the summary, fine by me to drop it.   If it makes Evo
> leaner (I'm still on dial-up!) the I think that's a big step forward.
>
> robert
>
>
>
>                     Ettore Perazzoli
>                     <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>          To:     Evolution Hackers
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>
>
>                     07/10/2003 03:44 PM

>
>
>
>
>
>
> Hello!
>
> Here at Ximian we have been brainstorming a bit about what happens
> next in the Evolution world.  One of the ideas that has come up is a
> substantial overhaul of Evolution's UI.
>
> Since images speak better than words, here are the mockups for some
> designs that Anna has developed: (this is just to give a very rough
> idea of what it would be like; the icons and labels are not final, the
> widgets are not the real ones etc.)
>
>            http://primates.ximian.com/~anna/evo2/evo2_contacts.png
>            http://primates.ximian.com/~anna/evo2/evo2_calendar.png
>            http://primates.ximian.com/~anna/evo2/evo2_mail.png
>            http://primates.ximian.com/~anna/evo2/evo2_tasks.png
>            http://primates.ximian.com/~anna/evo2/evo2_navbar_shrunk.png
>
> The most important changes are:
>
>            * You no longer see all the types of folders at once.  You
>           switch between calendar, mail, tasks and contacts by
>           clicking on the buttons at the bottom.
>
>            * The calendar allows you to see multiple calendar at once.
>           Also you can subscribe to web calendars and see them in the
>           pane on the left as well.
>
> There are a few reasons for us to go with this design:
>
>            * It kills the all-in-one tree view, which currently makes it
>           difficult to reach for your calendar or contacts folders,
>           since they are hiding between all the various mail folders.
>           You no longer need to hunt for you calendar folder scrolling
>           through the tree to see what your schedule is like, you just
>           click on an easily accessible button marked "Calendar".
>           Much better navigation.  (Please note that, although it's
>           not obvious from the mockup, we would still have a mail
>           folder tree, the same way we have it now.  Calendar, Tasks
>           and Contacts, however, would be just flat lists.)
>
>            * Killing the tree view also simplifies the architecture a
>           lot.  Right now there is a lot of machinery in place to
>           handle the tree, making sure that components don't step on
>           each other's toes.  In particular, the handling of local
>           folders is a maintenance nightmare, and also makes it very
>           hard to provide the hooks that hackers need eg. to access
>           Evolution's folders and do cool desktop integration hacks.
>
>            * The shell's APIs would be drastically reduced to just
>              a couple calls and it would become a lot simpler to
>           implement new components.
>
>            * This design simplification would also allow components to be
>           launched independently from each other.  We could
>           potentially even launch the shell without certain components
>           (e.g. launch only the mailer) if the user wants it that way.
>           If we wanted to have separated apps a la OS X we could
>           trivially do that too.
>
>            * As I mentioned, it allows side-by-side calendar viewing,
>           which increases the usability of the calendar manyfold.
>
> On the other hand, if we go this way we are probably also going to
> drop the following features:
>
>            * The summary.  While the summary is neat, there is a general
>           feeling (at least amongst the developers) that the mail and
>           calendar summaries are not tremendously useful, and that
>           weather and RDF and weather information is better suited for
>           a specialized application.  Also we are trying to reduce the
>           amount of code we have to maintain, and this seems like a
>           good candidate for trimming.
>
>            * The shortcut bar.  It's been shown that only a relatively
>              small part of the Evolution user community actually uses it,
>           and we feel that it unnecessarily complicates the UI.  The
>           new design is much simpler to navigate anyways, and the
>           shortcut bar would add clutter and complexity, both in code
>           and UI.  Also, it wouldn't be easy to implement in this
>           model without keeping some of the shell's complexity that
>           we would like to get rid of.
>
> Opinions?
>
> -- Ettore
> _______________________________________________
> evolution maillist  -  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
>
>
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 10
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Evolution 2.0 UI proposal
> From: Ettore Perazzoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Jason Tackaberry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Evolution Hackers Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Evolution Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 10 Jul 2003 19:42:25 -0400
>
> >       * It's not obvious from the mockups whether or not it will be
> >         possible to collapse trees.  (i.e. I don't see any +/- button
> >         there.)  Hopefully that will still be possible.
>
> Yeah, Anna just had trouble filling up the tree widget with some content
> in Glade so she just cut and pasted some text with the Gimp instead.  It
> is supposed to be a tree, just like the one we have now.
>
> (Actually, we might port it to GtkTreeView.  Mike Kestner had ported it
> a while ago but we decided to stick with ETree for 1.4 to limit the
> number of changes; now it makes sense to put that code back in.)
>
> >       * It should be possible to reorder/remove or at least collapse the
> >         top-level categories (i.e. the "On My Computer," "On
> >         sensitive.org," and "Virtual Folders" that appear on the list in
> >         evo_mail2.png).
>
> Same as above.  This is also supposed to be a tree.
>
> This is a very rough, early mockup to explain what the basic idea is, we
> are going to have a more specific design later.  ;-)
>
> >       * Should the search bar at the top be labeled with "Search"?   It
> >         might improve usability to have "Search for [Messages
> >         Containing] <input field>" instead of "[Message Contains] <input
> >         field>"
>
> The current way actually doesn't have a Search label either, I don't
> know if it has ever been shown to be a usability problem.  I think Anna
> tested it on people before.
>
> >       * I don't see a Clear button for the search bar.  How will that
> >         work?
>
> Yeah, this is an oversight, instead of the magnifier icon there is going
> to be a "clear search" icon there.
>
> >       * In the calendar/contacts screenshots, I see a "Filter by
> >         Category" list.  Will that also be available on the in the mail
> >         view?
>
> That would be nice, yeah.  It's a pretty commonly requested feature, and
> I assume is easy to implement in the mailer?
>
> >       * If you axe the Summary, you'll only have 5 navigation buttons
> >         (or whatever you call them), and that will look unbalanced. :)
>
> The layout of the buttons actually will have to be dynamic in some way,
> since we want to allow new components to be plugged in and the view
> should just cope with that (and in particular, Connector might want to
> have its own button there as well).
>
> We'll have to write some custom layout code and try to figure out what
> is the best way to move them around when the size of the pane changes.
>
> -- Ettore
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 11
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Evolution 2.0 UI proposal
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 18:51:25 -0500
>
>
> Instead of scrapping the Summary, you might consider making it more
> 'user-customizable'.  Perhaps a 'framed' HTML page (from standard
> templates), allowing the user to do decide what to put in each frame
> (calendar, task list, contact list, inbox, web page, etc).  You might have
> a wizard to walk the user thru the Summary config, then store the
resulting
> page in a SUMMARY.XML doc; at start-up, load the SUMMARY.XML doc.  If it's
> not there (or mangled so that it's unusable), just display a 'standard'
> one.
>
> Something akin to what Lotus Notes 6 does...
>
> Regardless, I'd sure like to be able to use a version newer than 1.0.8 to
> read my Lotus Notes email (anything newer than that is so slow it's
> unusable to me).
>
> Tom Hightower
> Solutions, Inc
> http://www.simas.com
>
>
>
>
>                       Ettore Perazzoli
>                       <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>          To:       Evolution
Hackers Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Evolution
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>
>
>                       07/10/2003 05:44 PM
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Hello!
>
> Here at Ximian we have been brainstorming a bit about what happens
> next in the Evolution world.  One of the ideas that has come up is a
> substantial overhaul of Evolution's UI.
>
> Since images speak better than words, here are the mockups for some
> designs that Anna has developed: (this is just to give a very rough
> idea of what it would be like; the icons and labels are not final, the
> widgets are not the real ones etc.)
>
>  http://primates.ximian.com/~anna/evo2/evo2_contacts.png
>  http://primates.ximian.com/~anna/evo2/evo2_calendar.png
>  http://primates.ximian.com/~anna/evo2/evo2_mail.png
>  http://primates.ximian.com/~anna/evo2/evo2_tasks.png
>  http://primates.ximian.com/~anna/evo2/evo2_navbar_shrunk.png
>
> The most important changes are:
>
>  * You no longer see all the types of folders at once.  You
>           switch between calendar, mail, tasks and contacts by
>           clicking on the buttons at the bottom.
>
>  * The calendar allows you to see multiple calendar at once.
>           Also you can subscribe to web calendars and see them in the
>           pane on the left as well.
>
> There are a few reasons for us to go with this design:
>
>  * It kills the all-in-one tree view, which currently makes it
>           difficult to reach for your calendar or contacts folders,
>           since they are hiding between all the various mail folders.
>           You no longer need to hunt for you calendar folder scrolling
>           through the tree to see what your schedule is like, you just
>           click on an easily accessible button marked "Calendar".
>           Much better navigation.  (Please note that, although it's
>           not obvious from the mockup, we would still have a mail
>           folder tree, the same way we have it now.  Calendar, Tasks
>           and Contacts, however, would be just flat lists.)
>
>  * Killing the tree view also simplifies the architecture a
>           lot.  Right now there is a lot of machinery in place to
>           handle the tree, making sure that components don't step on
>           each other's toes.  In particular, the handling of local
>           folders is a maintenance nightmare, and also makes it very
>           hard to provide the hooks that hackers need eg. to access
>           Evolution's folders and do cool desktop integration hacks.
>
>  * The shell's APIs would be drastically reduced to just
>    a couple calls and it would become a lot simpler to
>           implement new components.
>
>  * This design simplification would also allow components to be
>           launched independently from each other.  We could
>           potentially even launch the shell without certain components
>           (e.g. launch only the mailer) if the user wants it that way.
>           If we wanted to have separated apps a la OS X we could
>           trivially do that too.
>
>  * As I mentioned, it allows side-by-side calendar viewing,
>           which increases the usability of the calendar manyfold.
>
> On the other hand, if we go this way we are probably also going to
> drop the following features:
>
>  * The summary.  While the summary is neat, there is a general
>           feeling (at least amongst the developers) that the mail and
>           calendar summaries are not tremendously useful, and that
>           weather and RDF and weather information is better suited for
>           a specialized application.  Also we are trying to reduce the
>           amount of code we have to maintain, and this seems like a
>           good candidate for trimming.
>
>  * The shortcut bar.  It's been shown that only a relatively
>    small part of the Evolution user community actually uses it,
>           and we feel that it unnecessarily complicates the UI.  The
>           new design is much simpler to navigate anyways, and the
>           shortcut bar would add clutter and complexity, both in code
>           and UI.  Also, it wouldn't be easy to implement in this
>           model without keeping some of the shell's complexity that
>           we would like to get rid of.
>
> Opinions?
>
> -- Ettore
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