On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 12:46, iain wrote: > > http://home.cnet.com/software/0-8888-8-9161160-1.html > Interesting, although Evolution can do, or does a few of these, some of > the ideas are a bit "iffy" IMO.
A few are actually good ideas. 3) Built-in instant messaging ICQ integrates with Outlook. It would be nice if there were an API for integrating Gabber, Gaim, etc. with Evolution. 4) Calendar-linked autoresponse This one isn't a bad idea either, if it's a preference for each "out of office" calendar item. This kind of thing would work better with cooperation from the mail server(s). A way for Evolution to store filtering preferences for, say, procmail, server-side would be intresting. Maybe we could take a page from MSFT and just store the filters as specially-formatted email messages. Perhaps a "filters" folder, and/or a special "filters" message in each folder. 5) Integrated PGP encryption Got it! Woo! But the integration could be a little tighter. This is probably as much a problem with GnuPG as Evo. 7) Mouseover contact information This one isn't bad, either. Maybe the popup could include the subject and date of the last message received from this person, as well as today's calendar items involving this person, and current IM presence. 9) All-powerful right-clicking It would be nice if Evo included a "flag for follow-up." These flags would be one more thing to include in the "mouseover contact information" popup. 10) Easy-access message templates This is a nice feature. Evo currently has an "inline text file" option, which is sort of the same thing. But maybe it could provide a way to put commonly-used inserts on the menu: insert... text... (items). Maybe Evo could store these as another type of specially-formatted email message, so that IMAP users can have them be portable. Bonus) Peer-to-peer document sharing People use Outlook to send files around to people all the time. MSFT even optimized for this behavior by storing attachments only once in Exchange server. Sans a central database-enabled mail server, Eudora's peer-to-peer method seems like a good idea. This might be a chance for Nautilus, Evolution and other Gnome-VFS apps to cooperate. I.e., push this "shared/synced folder" functionality down into the gnome-vfs layer, so that items can be accessed, added, and removed from any gnome-vfs app. Distributed filesystem on the cheap. _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
