Continuation of the Karmic Win series — part 1 was about installation and initial setup.
One thing I noticed right away when I first started poking around in Karmic Koala was the little envelope icon in the upper-right corner, by the network monitor and sound volume.
Clicking on it shows “Empathy, Evolution Mail”. Evolution Mail I recognized; it’s the mail client that’s been distributed with Ubuntu for a long time. (Intended to work as an Outlook replacement) Empathy I was unfamiliar with, though. I poked around some more and found that Empathy is an instant messenging client.
Cool.
In the past, when I was on Hardy Heron, I would use a Prism app for gMail / gTalk. It was pretty lightweight, but if we can integrate it even more closely with the desktop, that’s all the better.
Now if you recall, we’ve discussed before about linking the Evolution calendar to Google Calendar. That was my original intent, but in the back of my mind I recalled that gMail has recently made POP/IMAP access available, making gMail even more attractive as an email host. The wheels are churning… oh, and what’s that I see in Empathy? Google Talk? hmm…. Read the rest of this entry »
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