GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 127544
Outlook-Evolution dictionary
Last modified: 2012-02-19 16:49:28 UTC
To help people switching from Outlook to Evolution, assemble a list of equivalent tasks for mail, calendar, and addressbook functionality, for the Evolution user's guide. Ask yourself this question: "In Outlook, I did something by clicking here or selecting there. In Evolution, what do I do?" This bug is part of the Integrated Collaborative Desktop Bounty Hunt. For more information on prizes, contest rules, and other bounty tasks, visit: http://www.gnome.org/bounties/ If you would like to start working on this bounty, please create a bugzilla account and append your intention to work on this bounty to this bug. If multiple people declare their intentions to work on a task, we encourage you to join forces and work together. Please do not close this bug. The contest organizers will mark this bug as FIXED when the prize is claimed.
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I'm going to try my hand at this one.
Did you have any succes Russell ?
I'll take a crack at this I'm adding what I think are the bare minimum areas that need to be addressed. Will add more when at work (where I use outlook :( ) If no-one objects, I'll use this BZ to keep track of progess on these, ___Mail___ ___simple actions: Compose/Write New mail message Check for new mail Send only Receive only Forward Reply Reply-to-all Delete Selected Sort-by-date Sort-by-sender Sort-by-subject Add mailer to contacts Edit Specific Contact Setup basic account (POP3/IMAP/ local delivery) Create and edit Signatures ___more complex actions Filter on recipient(s) Filter on subject Filter on sender Change order of filters Add more than one account Use different SMTP accounts for different user acccounts Vfolders Default views, and how to change them Categories and how to use them ___Calendar___ create new appointment send to contact Edit existing appointment sync with PDA Set rules for overwriting upon PDA sync(PDA wins, mailer wins, ask) ___Contacts___ Create new contact Edit contact Create mailing list from contacts Delete contact(s) Using categories
This is the best place to keep track of that sort of stuff :) Glad to see people contributing! Keep up the good work.
George, are you still on this? If not, I'll do some work on this one the next week or so. Probably based on George's notes, and my own. Aaron, any comments this far? Anything new one should think about?
hey, is anyone working on this rite now? i know the basics of docbook...you think this ll be a good place to start? and is there any format to follow? thanks dhananjay
I'd suggest using the <glossary> structure within Docbook. But even plain text would be fine. Contact Evo docs maintainer mark moulder (mmoulder@novell.com) for additional info on getting docs accepted.
Hi, I've given this one a try. I started some work and will publish the results of that effort today. It is not yet complete, but maybe BZ is a nice place to keep track of the effort and take suggestions while I am on it. I thought the Appendix A (Migration From Outlook to Evolution) was the best place for this section and so I've created a docbook part with sections that can be inserted there.
Created attachment 35808 [details] First revision of the fix for Bug #127544 (Outlook-to-Evolution mapping) Please refer to the README.txt in the created directory for installation and other details.
I will be working on this over the next little while. I have a good bit done, but I want to make it look good. Give me a couple of weeks (I'm getting married! ;) and I'll hopefully be able to commit a rough, yet moderately shiny version.
Jeremy, are you still working on this? Seems like many people tried it, but all got MIA. I'm worried that the same can happen again. :)
Is anyone currently working on this?
I would love to pick it up, and could reasonably finish a rough copy in about 2 weeks, is this a still an open bounty/something that we want? Also (and more importantly) what version of evolution are we comparing to? I can do this for 2.6 far more readily than 2.4, but in the end I could install 2.4 it would just be a bit of a pain to also backwords-learn stuff....
Me and my friend (Vincent Celis) 'd like to try this one. Is it still open? I'll keep you posted.
This bounty was available in 2003 and is not available anymore. Closing as OBSOLETE.