Published Edition of the mail client Geary 40.0 , use-oriented by the GNOME environment. Initially, the project was founded by the Yorba Foundation organization, which created a popular photo manager Shotwell, but later the development went into the hands of the GNOME community. The code is written in VALA and distributed under the LGPL license. The finished assemblies will soon be prepared in the form of a self-sufficient package FlatPak .
The purpose of the development of the project is to create a rich According to the possibilities of the product, but at the same time extremely easy to use and consuming minimum resources. The mail client is designed for both separate use and work together with WEB-oriented postal services, such as Gmail and Yahoo! Mail. The interface is implemented using the GTK3 + library. SQLite database database is used to store the database of the message database, a full-text index is created to search for messages. To work with IMAP, a new GOBJECT based library is involved, working in asynchronous mode (mail download operations do not block the interface).
Key innovations :
- updated interface design, added new pictograms.
- Added support for display modes on small screens, on half of the screen and in portrait mode.
- Improved the performance of the display of large discussions.
- updated full-text search engine.
- improved hotkeys.
- improved compatibility with mail servers.
