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Tue, 01 Aug 2006
Thought I'd mess around with embedding applications to see if I could get a poor-man's Evolution going with TinyMail, Contacts and Dates. Ends up it's fairly easy to do:
Update: Updated the script url and screenshot to the newest version.
posted at: 03:57 | [/Software] | link | 10 comments
Chris Lord says:
'Darker' theme - http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=32768
posted at Mon Jul 10 15:10:13 2006
David says:
I just gave this a shot (on the desktop), and it works very nicely.. as for it being a poor man's evolution, I'd take this sort of UI over evolution's any day! Any chance of further development?
A couple of things I noticed:
- when the window is large the buttons on the left don't look too good since they get stretched vertically
- each component gets loaded every time you click its button? It makes the switching a bit slow (though I realise that this is maybe a memory-saving choice).
Fantastic work, anyway :D
posted at Tue Jul 11 15:02:08 2006
Chris Lord says:
Glad you like it!
I've made it look a little nicer (see the post above this) and I do plan, when I have a little spare time, to add a 'keep-loaded' time-out so that only the first switch to the component will be slow (much like Evolution)..
Hopefully I'll also get a little time to work on Tinymail and perhaps some integration between these 3 apps :)
posted at Wed Jul 12 03:50:52 2006
Jim says:
Now that you found out how easy it is to embed the apps, please leave that idea alone :)
It's great to have the the apps separated by the task. We alseady have this huge UI monster that is evolution, keep things simple and consistent with tinymail, contacts and calendar.