Monthly Archives: November 2008

Evolution 2.24 = Epic fail?

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I took this photos five minutes ago.

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After this and this, I’m tired, I can’t update…evolution 2.24 sucks a lot!

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By the way, I’m not going to switch to Thunderbird or $random_email_client, I was satisfied by previous releases. I’m hopeful this version will be fixed.

Update 24/11/2008@11:25: probably I have a credit with emails :P


Update 04/12/2008@10:18: I’ve a lot of news :-) I’m using the 2.24.2 since I found it on koji, few problems was solved but most of them remains, for example this and this :-) The work to do is huge, I hope to see improvements next minor release in January 2009.

Update 08/12/2008@10:35: 2 hours to filtering message…what the fuck…I’m looking for an alternatives :(

Update 17/12/2008@18:27 Right now, I can say that there is no alternative to evolution. The answer to “why not?” is “Evolution implements a very good virtual folders idea”.

Why virtual folders are so important for me? because permit you to abstract you email trees and make it independent by accounts number, account type, etc…The classical approach suppose you use POP, download your mail and manage it in locale. But if you use IMAP, for example, every email tree is independent, and there is no way to work with email from each account at the same time. To be hones, this is not really true. Right now the most innovative feature is the possibility to save a search (supported by Evolution, KMail and Thunderbird) and this search may be performed cross-account.

What is lacking, and Evolution had it (for more information about my frustration read here), is a folder that collect all emails the searches didn’t match.

I’m sick to explain to every people who tell me “I have evolution and it works” so this is my situation: I have to manage about 4 email account and a lot of old local emails. I usually use IMAP. I use about 30 virtual folders and I receive about 150/200 email every day (this number depends of days and of how many mailing lists I subscribed).

Update 15/01/2009@21:46 I have to say that last Evolution minor release (2.24.3) is really better. Less noisy bugs, less crashes. Unmatched folder feature is still missing, but I think developers understand that is important and they will try to get it back in next major release. I hope also zimbra-plugin mantainer take care of bug I opened because I can’t use my online zimbra calendar.

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Random thoughts about FAD EMEA

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Basel

Basel is a very nice location, I didn’t expect to find a so beautiful city. It was a great choose.

Organization was perfect. I want to say a great “Thank you” to Sandro for his brilliant and complete management. His also included a tour (with a skilled guide, Riccardo, if I don”t remember bad) in Basel and a visit to the botanic garden.

I really enjoined this meeting and I hope to participate again, and more actively, next year.

LinuxTAG

Linux tag planning was the main topic, on Saturday morning. There were a lot of points: budget was the most discussed one. Last year, Linux Tag had about 20K$ of budged, which will probably reduce a bit next year, maybe booking a less expensive hotel, reducing the booth dimension and move FUDCon in a separate place/time.

I’m the ones who vote to separate FUDCon from LinuxTAG because are two different events, and as far as I remember last year there weren’t many attenders, probably because is an internal event. I’d like to partecipate to FADCon in Stuttgard.

Linux Day

Here my presentation about our result on Linux Day. Nothing more to say, you can find my reports here, here, here and here.

About contributors

I don’t think we should point to “get $number contributor(s)” philosophy, we just spread Fedora as much as possible and try to let Fedora known to a larger number of people. After this, it will be automatic that we will find other contributors.

The first step is the more time consuming and hard to do, because to get at least one new contributor you have to talk to at least hundred people, after that the work became less difficult.

Random photos

Thanks to Francesco Crippa’s set, I forgot my camera at home :’(

A lot of compressed and amused geeks.

Joerg, Fabian, Felix, Jeroen (from left to right)

Italian “delegation” (me, Francesco Ugolini e Gianluca Varisco) :-P

Joerg

Francesco Ugolini

Francesco Ugolini :-)

My Firefox Plugins

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Actually I’m a Firefox user and it seems to work fine (with NVidia, performance are better with this trick). I added a lot of add-on and I can’t remember all, so I writing a list of it just in case I’ll clean my Firefox configuration. The bold one are the most useful.

  • DebugLogger
  • Delicious Bookmarks
  • Firebug
  • Fission
  • Flagfox
  • FlashVideoResourcesDownloader
  • Flashblock
  • ForecastFox
  • FoxyProxy
  • Locationbar²
  • Mugshot
  • Pencil
  • RAMBack
  • Selenium IDE (only if you are developer and need quick webtest on your apps)
  • Session Manager
  • Stealther
  • Stilish
  • TrackMeNot