Monday, March 14 2005 @ 07:33 PM EST Contributed by: glosser
The GNOME Journal brings us news of what to expect in version 2.2 of Evolution.
It’s been six months since we last looked at Evolution, the groupware application for the GNOME desktop. Unlike the radical change from 1.4 to 2.0, this release can mostly be characterized as one concentrating on polish and finish.
Please refer to my prior article on 2.0, as I will mostly be concentrating on the new features and improvements to Evolution rather than an overall review.
Offline Operation
As a laptop user, I sometimes find myself out of range of a wifi hotspot or without a network connection. If I needed to use Evolution, I’d be in a bit of a bind when not connected to my mail server. While caching of mail headers with IMAP is a common solution, I still wouldn’t have the rest of my contacts, calendar, and tasks that I normally have via a networked server.
Evolution’s offline support is a solution to this problem. Before I leave the office, I put Evolution into offline mode by choosing Work Offline from the File menu, or merely clicking on the icon on the bottom left of the main Evolution window.
