Dominic Lüchinger wrote:
Do you think Roundcube deserves the version 1.0?
Yes. We use a single RC installation for more than 20'000 email accounts and 4000-5000 logins a day. We wrote some custom plugins to grant only our customers to log in and to integrate 3rd party tools. So far we are very happy with the latest release and especially the new look and feel by Büro Flint.
Great!
Together with this simple yes-no question, I'd also like to give you the opportunity to submit your personal "1.0 wish list".
- Some customers are requesting a mobile friendly skin. We see at the
moment no need, due the easy installation of an email account via a mobile mail client app.
This has been requested several times and we'll take it on the roadmap, I suppose.
- Extending the preview of attachments. Provide a rendered image of the
attachment and links with in a message -- e.g. like Mac's Quick Look or the Gloobus Preview ( http://gloobus.net/gloobus-preview/)
We just added the image previews and there are plugins to even render Open Office Documents and PDFs inline. However, they don't do it in a gallery-style way as you suggested.
- API binding / interface to integrate 3rd party storage providers
(Dropbox, Evernote, Box, ..) -- something that https://attachments.me/ is doing for gmail
Good point! I once played around with integrating ownCloud for this purpose but we're not there yet.
- Central Plugin repository: I know, there is some work going on with a
modified packagist service. -- IMHO: A good solution will boost the quality and usage of plugins. E.g. Wordpress and other CMS have a huge base of handy addons.
That's on the way and should be released before/with 1.0.
- Better IE support for older versions. I know that IE 6-8 are a pain to
support. But some of our customers have really old browsers -> corporate IT infrastructure with Outlook (but restricted), no access to install an alternative Browser, old Windows and old IE (legacy Intranet only works with IE6 - IE8), bored at work and use the RC to break out
We still support IE7+ and the old skin is supposed to work even with IE6. But to be honest, if somebody really wants to support 10+ year old software, they should pay for it.
- Although we are very happy with the new UI, there are some new UI and
concept kids on the block. IMHO: The UI iteration newer stops. -- http://www.vanschneider.com/work/mail/ -- http://www.uniboxapp.com/blog -- http://www.getmailbird.com/ -- http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/18/aol-alto-cloud-based-email-client/ -- http://moargh.de/fhp/appendix/ --- quite cool: http://incom.org/workspace/3189 -> List of 7 UI concepts
Nice things, indeed. I already knew some of them but they are truly interesting. It's mostly a skinning thing but probably some workflow changes would be necessary in the core as well.
Most of the things we'd like to see, are optional and nice to have. Thanks for all the excellent work.
Thank you for your feedback!
~Thomas