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Linux UI designer working on netbook-optimized calendar, mail
by Adam Maras Aug 6th 2009 at 5:00PM
Linux-powered netbook users that have been missing their doctors' appointments and kids' school plays because operating a calendar application on their tiny portable is, at best, clunky and painful, can finally breathe an accurately-scheduled sigh of relief. Srinivasa Ragavan, who is one of the user interface developers for the open-source Evolution personal information manager project, has taken it upon himself to develop netbook-happy frontends for the calendar and mail portions of Evolution.
The calendar interface, as shown off on his blog, makes use of the entire screen for the calendar view. It features a handy upper toolbar for navigation, and a powerful drop-down menu for selecting more viewing options. The mail frontend, named "Anjal," features such optimizations as a similar upper toolbar, a tabbed interface (something soon to be seen in Thunderbird 3), and Gmail-esque threading.
Srinivasa hasn't yet released any working source for the calendar interface, but the Anjal mail project is available for anyone willing to install Moblin on their netbook, or (for even more fun) build it from source.
[via All About Netbooks]
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MarkyB86 said 3:11AM on 8-07-2009
I wish there was a way to make dialogs and windows fit the screen without the use of 'Maximus'
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motang said 10:53AM on 8-07-2009
Yeah I agree with you, and I think Moblin would something for netbook, as it's a ground up project that is made for small screen size and not an OS made for larger screen size made to fit on a small screen.