Preliminary plan for Omea "Grenache" 2.3

General

• Switch to .Net 2.0/3.0
• Move repository to SVN
• Open access
• Policy for patches adoption
• License

JetListView

• JetListView performance optimization
• Automatically convert two-line column representation into one-line when there is enough space to fit all columns.
• Sort threads by last article/mail date

UI

• 2-Pane configuration, without Items list
• Completely new UI elements layout
• Simplify toolbar
• Subst "Quick Find" by uniform representation in "Search" control
• Toolbar buttons "move Next", "move Prev" (more suitable for tablet PCs)
• Better visibility of <unread messages in the thread> expand/collaps icon
• AbstractPane redesign - add filter buttons and search
• Dettachable Workspace Bar
• Redesign "See Also" across workspaces
• "Your Summary" tab
• One/Multi step UNDO

Filters, Rules, Views

• New rules event - when a category is assigned to a resource
• Preserve term highlighting when search results are converted to an ordinary view or after rule has been successfully applied to a resource
• Extended search query language API
• View/Rule condition: post of a "feed under the <folder>"
• Calendar Pane with the possibility to select resources by date/range

Categories

• Ability to intersect sets of resources ascribed to different categories/multifaceted categorization
• Create directly new resource with auto-ascribing it to that category right-clicking on the category
• "Assign Category" dialog: sort by category frequency

Contacts

• Distinguish graphically between new Contacts and those from which correspondence was already received
• Redesign Contact Edit Dialog
• Support pictures for Contacts

Plugin Architecture

• Move all search facilities into "search provider" architecture, make it possible to plug all sorts of search.

Email

• CSS for showing attachments below the mail body (pictures with preview, texts with extracts)
• Redesign of Folders structure to adopt different sources of emails
• POP3 client

RSS

• Annotation tab in Properties dialog
• Redesign of Newspaper CSS for better aestetics
• Extract <language> tag
• RSS-like publishing import - recognize additional xml tags, convert them into custom properties

IMs

• Refactor IM API for simpler integration of different IMs
• AIM support
• QIP support
• Review newest ICQ support

i18n

• Configurable set of prefixes (like "RE:", "FW:") to ignore when sorting by subject

Rest

• Database synchronization
• Resource Ticker - standalone, or integrated into Vista Sidebar
• Resource Database performance and reliability fixes.