10:45 PM
Yorba, the team behind Shotwell, has started working on a new project called Geary, a lightweight, feature-rich email client for the GNOME desktop written in Vala. Geary is in very early development stages and it can pretty much only be used to fetch / write new emails and only works with Gmail for now. But there are some quite interesting planned features for Geary:
- Full IMAP support, making email synchronization a breeze
- Tight integration with popular Web mail services, including Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, and Mobile Me
- Full-featured WYSIWYG editor for composing emails
- Threaded / conversation views
- Lightning fast as-you-type email search
- Desktop notification of new email
- Support for multiple email accounts
- Offline mode
- Full support for popular IMAP servers, including Dovecot
What's even more interesting is that
elementary OS guys are interested in Geary (which by the way already features an elementary-like menu/button, as you can see in the screenshot above)
and they have contacted Yorba about combining Postler's user interface with Geary's backend:We’re undergoing talks with Yorba regarding the possibility of combining Postler’s fine user interface with the great backend of Yorba’s super-secret mail client Geary. We've reached out to Yorba and they seem to be just as excited as us; this could become a very powerful partnership and we look forward to the good things to come.
In theory, Geary sounds great, and with help for the user interface from elementary, this new email client for GNOME would surely rock. However, judging from the commit log, the development is kind of slow so if you can help, check out the
Geary Project page (here you'll also find installation instructions, but it's kind of tricky due to some dependencies not available in the repos).
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7:53 PM
Thunderbird 5.0 has been released today, bringing a new addons manager (Firefox-style), NotifyOSD notifications, tabs can be reordered and dragged to different windows, the account creation wizard has been improved and many other improvements and bug fixes. See the release changelog
here.
Upgrade To Thunderbird 5.0 in Ubuntu 11.04, 10.10 or 10.04
By using the instructions below, your current stable Thunderbird build will be replaced with Thunderbird 5.0.
To add the Thunderbird Stable PPA and upgrade to the latest Thunderbird 5.0 in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, 10.10 Maverick Meerkat or 10.04 Lucid Lynx, use the commands below:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/thunderbird-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
The
Thunderbird Stable PPA also comes with an updated Lightning extension (1.0 beta 4 which apparently is considered a stable version -
see here) which is compatible with the latest Thunderbird 5. You can install it using the command below:
sudo apt-get install xul-ext-lightning
P.s: to make Thunderbird 5.0 look like in my first screenshot (Gmail-like conversation view), use the
Thunderbird Conversations extension.
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2:35 AM
Similarly to the Firefox-Next PPA, there's a new "Thunderbird-Next" PPA available which you can use to install the latest Thunderbird beta builds in Ubuntu.
The Thunderbird Next PPA provides Thunderbird releases from the beta channel so each time a new beta version is released, it will be available to install via this PPA, but of course with a delay because it takes a while for new versions to be packaged and tested.
At the time I'm writing this post, the Thunderbird beta channel PPA provides Thunderbird 5 beta 1 - if you want to see what's new, see this page. Upgrade To Thunderbird 5 beta 1 in Ubuntu using the Thunderbird beta channel PPA
Using this PPA, your current Thunderbird stable release will be replaced with the latest Thunderbird beta release, which may have bugs so use it at your own risk!
The Thunderbird Beta Channel PPA is available for Ubuntu 11.04, 10.10 and 10.04. Add it and upgrade Thunderbird to version 5 beta 1 using the commands below:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/thunderbird-next
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
P.s.: to get a Gmail-like interface for Thunderbird like in my screenshot, check out
Thunderbird Conversations extension.
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