Thanks for the update!
Let me suggest to keep the „Design Crowd Funding Campaign“ alive. I
believe that a lot of users (especially new users) do not even know
about this campaign. It isn not really advertised. That is why I thought
a little friendly reminder on this list might help. :-)
I believe an improved visual concept of MailMate would also help to get
some UI issues solved or eased at least (e.g. the issue with the
„SideBar organisational tabs/menus“).
--Thomas
On 26 Feb 2016, at 11:14, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
On 26 Feb 2016, at 10:25, Thomas Eckhold wrote:
I wonder if you could and want to share some news about the project
[„Graphics
Designer“](http://sites.fastspring.com/freron/product/graphicsdesigner)?
Oh, how time flies. Good question. I've been thinking I should take
that down since it was probably not the best way to handle the issue
of graphics and visual design. I rarely get contributions now and I
believe it's at about 62%. Most of that money is already used on a new
application icon which I'm using on my own version of MailMate right
now.
Let me take this opportunity to do a small status update (just for
this list). Some might have noticed that I'm some times using a
version of MailMate with this `X-Mailer` header: `2.0BETAr6002`. This
is almost identical to the 1.9.x releases except for two things: A lot
of changes with regard to how HTML is handled when replying/forwarding
(the achilles heel of MailMate) and a new headers view.
I don't usually have two branches of MailMate. Most of my changes and
fixes are quickly released in 1.9.x test releases and this is how I
prefer to work, but this has led to some confusion. A lot of users
(and non-users) have the impression that I'm working on a huge new
separate 2.0 release, but this has never been the case. MailMate has
moved from version 1.5.3 to 1.9.3 since the crowd funding more than 2
years ago and as most of you know then the release notes are a mile
long.
The reason I do have a separate 2.0 beta running myself now (again,
only with a few new features) is that I want to change how I work on
new features. The official 1.9.x releases are only going to be for
fixes and minor changes and the 2.0 beta gets all the new features.
When I think it's ready then I'll bump the beta to be the official
MailMate 2.0 release and then go back to a single branch of
development.
In other words, I hope to release the 2.0 beta as soon as possible to
stop any speculation that something completely different than 1.9.x is
in the works. The 2.0 beta is still too unstable to be released. To be
honest, I'm not making progress as quickly as I would like --
primarily because of too much incoming email pointing out issues and
bugs in the 1.9.x releases. I'm sure most of you know that feeling
since you are using MailMate to handle your emails :-)
Hmm, I'm afraid I just added to the confusion now :-)
Have a nice weekend.
--
Benny
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