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  • Groovy language plugin support 

    fdietz 6:14 pm on December 31, 2004 Permalink | Reply

    I’m currently commiting the Groovy language support. A Groovy Interpreter plugin contains all the necessary libraries. It therefore has to be installed first, on order to start writing Groovy plugins. I’ve also added a simply Hello World Groovy action plugin to demonstrate how to write plugins with Groovy.

    Note, that have to use the current CVS version, the plugins won’t work with RC2.

    Following the Groovy code which opens a swing dialog:

    public class HelloWorldAction extends AbstractColumbaAction {
    public HelloWorldAction(FrameMediator controller) {
    super(controller, "Hello, World!")
    putValue(AbstractColumbaAction.SHORT_DESCRIPTION,
    "Show me this tooltip, please")
    }

    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) {
    JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Hello World!")
    }
    }

     
  • Development after RC2 started 

    fdietz 1:55 pm on December 23, 2004 Permalink | Reply

    I’ve started collecting bugs in our bug-tracker specific to RC2.

    Our roadmap contains the planned features which will be implemented by Timo (tstich) and me.

    I’ve already finished the cleanup of the message list model. Additionally, the new filter toolbar for the mail component is in CVS.

     
  • Columba 1.0 RC2 Released 

    fdietz 5:56 pm on December 20, 2004 Permalink | Reply

    A new stable version of Columba is now available.

    Release Notes:
    http://columba.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=release

    Download:
    http://columba.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=download_stable

    Have fun,!

     
  • Mozilla compatible commandline options 

    fdietz 2:52 pm on December 4, 2004 Permalink | Reply

    The RC2 release contains the new Mozilla Mail compatible commandline options which makes integration with third-party software much easier. Most notably OpenOffice, which is the main reason why we changed this. See the screenshot on how to configure your OpenOffice to directly send messages with attached documents. Note, that you can either choose Option1 or Option2.

     
  • Message list discussion 

    fdietz 12:21 pm on December 3, 2004 Permalink | Reply

    Timo and me currently investigate possibilities to improve the threaded-view usability. One idea by ibm research came to our mind. Timo already implemented an arc-viewer control, so we would be able to play around with this thing after the RC2 release.

    Maybe, this way we could get rid of the current JTreeTable message-list and replace it with something more generic. The threaded-view capabilities make this old control a pain in the ass.

     
  • JDIC integration for RC2 release 

    fdietz 4:30 pm on December 2, 2004 Permalink | Reply

    Timo already started work on integrating the JDIC project. This currently includes trayicon support with a popup menu and lookup for an appropriate application for the specific mimetype. We also consider to use a better html-viewer instead of the built-in swing JTextPane. But we have to discuss this problem more thoroughly.

    We will therefore remove the jniwrapper based trayicon support. Nevertheless, jniwrapper will be useful for us. Most probably for Message and Contact import filters and mime contents viewers using win32 applications integrated in the message viewer.

     
  • What happens after the RC2 release 

    fdietz 12:49 pm on December 2, 2004 Permalink | Reply

    I’m currently discussing things with Timo as we come closer to a final 1.0 release of Columba. First of all there will be another release candidate RC3. This is necessary in our opinion to fix a couple of micro design issues in Columba. Note, that we focus on stuff which could further lead to more work in the future. We fix stuff for the 1.0 release, so that we can add new features afterwards easily. We will get much more attention and users after the stable 1.0 release. So, we don’t want to stop contributors adding new stuff, because of problems in our code.

    Our current planning includes a cleanup of the message viewer component and the message list. Both should be much more generic in our opinion. For example the message list knows about the fact that it displays email message headers, this way we can’t reuse big parts of this swing component.

    Also on our list is a more generic approach of using the Filters and Filter Actions including the Filter Toolbar and Search Dialog. We would like to move some of the code in the core framework. It currently is a mail-component specific feature. But we want to reuse this code in the addressbook component, too.

    I’m going to kickstart further discussions in the developer mailinglist. We should really try hard to stay focused on our goals of a quick final 1.0 release.

     
  • Indian Language Package contribution 

    fdietz 4:54 pm on December 1, 2004 Permalink | Reply

    Just got a message from the BharateeyaOO team, which are currently translating Columba for 6 Indian languages! The BharateeyaOO.o project is an initiative to bring OpenOffice.org to India in Indian languages and somehow Columba seems to be of interest for them.

     
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