Kube has a new website: kube-project.com
It’s got a fresh, cleaner design, together with less, but hopefully more to the point, content.
What comes with it though is that we’ll also be publishing the flatpak and Mac OS nightlies there from now on. The CI that is building those nightlies will be integrated eventually, but that job is not complete just yet.
So update your bookmarks now, going forward kube-project.com will be the first stop for anything Kube.
I’m pleased to announce the immediate availability of Kube 0.7.0
Over the past year or so we’ve done a lot of work and building and maturing Kube and it’s underlying platform Sink.
Since the last publicly announced release 0.3.0 there have been 413 commits to sink and 851 to Kube. Since that diff is rather large I’ll spare you the changelog and will do a quick recap of what we have instead:
While things still change rapidly and we have in no way reached the end of our ever growing roadmap, Kube has already become my favorite email client that I have ever used. YMMV.
Turns out we’re not done yet. Among the next plans we have:
While we remain committed to building a first class email experience we’re starting to venture a little beyond that with calendaring, while keeping our eyes focused on the grander vision of a tool that isn’t just yet another email client, but an assistant that helps you manage communication, time and tasks.
Of course the release is already outdated, so you may want to try a flatpak or some distro provided package instead:
https://kube.kde.org/getit.html
“Kube is a modern communication and collaboration client built with QtQuick on top of a high performance, low resource usage core. It provides online and offline access to all your mail, contacts, calendars, notes, todo’s and more. With a strong focus on usability, the team works with designers and UX experts from the ground up, to build a product that is not only visually appealing but also a joy to use.”
For more info, head over to: kube.kde.org
More information on the Kolab Now blog!
“Kube is a modern communication and collaboration client built with QtQuick on top of a high performance, low resource usage core. It provides online and offline access to all your mail, contacts, calendars, notes, todo’s and more. With a strong focus on usability, the team works with designers and UX experts from the ground up, to build a product that is not only visually appealing but also a joy to use.”
For more info, head over to: kube.kde.org
Perhaps if Windows wasn’t such a PITA there would be more progress 😉
More information on the Kolab Now blog!
“Kube is a modern communication and collaboration client built with QtQuick on top of a high performance, low resource usage core. It provides online and offline access to all your mail, contacts, calendars, notes, todo’s and more. With a strong focus on usability, the team works with designers and UX experts from the ground up, to build a product that is not only visually appealing but also a joy to use.”
For more info, head over to: kube.kde.org
Kube by now is my daily driver, and we’ve managed to iron out a lot of the remaining kinks since the last update.
More information on the Kolab Now blog!
“Kube is a modern communication and collaboration client built with QtQuick on top of a high performance, low resource usage core. It provides online and offline access to all your mail, contacts, calendars, notes, todo’s and more. With a strong focus on usability, the team works with designers and UX experts from the ground up, to build a product that is not only visually appealing but also a joy to use.”
For more info, head over to: kube.kde.org
New year, new Kube =)
More information on the Kolab Now blog!
“Kube is a modern communication and collaboration client built with QtQuick on top of a high performance, low resource usage core. It provides online and offline access to all your mail, contacts, calendars, notes, todo’s and more. With a strong focus on usability, the team works with designers and UX experts from the ground up, to build a product that is not only visually appealing but also a joy to use.”
For more info, head over to: kube.kde.org
We’re now running a Kube program with Kolab Now where you can get a basic Kolab Now account now, and see it’s features grow together with Kube, while the price remains the same. To take advantage of that offer, install the Kolab Now flatpak and signup through Kube.
More information on the Kolab Now blog!
“Kube is a modern communication and collaboration client built with QtQuick on top of a high performance, low resource usage core. It provides online and offline access to all your mail, contacts, calendars, notes, todo’s and more. With a strong focus on usability, the team works with designers and UX experts from the ground up, to build a product that is not only visually appealing but also a joy to use.”
For more info, head over to: kube.kde.org
Ooops, skipped a couple of weeks. Development did not stop though, although there was some infrastructure work to be done and less user-visible changes therefore.
More information on the Kolab Now blog!
“Kube is a modern communication and collaboration client built with QtQuick on top of a high performance, low resource usage core. It provides online and offline access to all your mail, contacts, calendars, notes, todo’s and more. With a strong focus on usability, the team works with designers and UX experts from the ground up, to build a product that is not only visually appealing but also a joy to use.”
For more info, head over to: kube.kde.org
Over the past two years we’ve been laying the ground work towards the first goal of a simple and beautiful mail client.
By now we have the first few releases out, and the closer we get to our goal, the less clear becomes what the next goal on our roadmap is.
So here’s something that we’ll be focusing on:
An obvious reason why we picked Kolab Now is because it is what sustains the larger part of the Kube team, allowing us to work on this project in the first place. However, it’s also a prime example of a completely Open Source and standards compliant service. Improving the Kolab experience means improving IMAP support, improving the CardDAV implementation, perhaps even adding CalDAV. It also means implementing proper GPG support, and pushing the user experience edge by edge to where we expect it to be. Things that all standards compliant services will benefit from. The Kolab Now service ensures we can focus on the relevant problems by taking variables out of the equation by being essentially the reference installation of Kolab.
Now, this means that we’ll be putting a little more focus on the single account experience, it does not mean we’ll be dropping support for multi-account setups though. The develop branch (which will lead to the next release) will continue to support multiple accounts and account types. What we will do though is acknowledge that very little testing is happening with other services than Kolab, and that we will probably not prioritize any features that are exclusive for other services (such as GMail’s non standard IMAP behavior) in the near future. It’s about focus, not exclusion.
There are many other goals ahead of course, that’s not the problem. Various platforms to be conquered, CalDAV access to our calendaring data, perfecting the mail experience, a beautiful calendar view, working out the grand scheme of how we tie all these bits together and produce something unique… Lot’s of exciting stuff that we’re looking forward to be working on!
However, it’s also easy to get lost in all those possibilities. It’d be easy to hack together some half-baked implementations for a variety of those ideas, and then revise those implementations or just pick the next bit. But that doesn’t lead to what we want. We want a product that is actually used and just works, and that requires focus. Especially since we’re a small team, it’s more important than ever that we maintain, if not increase, our focus. Kolab Now gives us something to focus on.
With that said, I’d like to announce the Kolab Now edition of Kube, that we’ve made available as an early access release.
This is a completely separate release-stream that supports Kolab Now exclusively, and does not replace general purpose Kube releases. But it is not a separate codebase (For simplicity there exists a kolabnow release branch with a two-line patch, but that’s all there ever will be).
We’ll regularly update this release to share our latest developments with you.
If you already are, or would like to become a Kolab Now user, then you’re welcome to join us on our journey to bringing you the best possible Kube experience to your desktop. You’re not only going to profit from a great service, but you’ll also help sustain the development of Kube.
For future updates, keep an eye on blogs.kolabnow.com
“Kube is a modern communication and collaboration client built with QtQuick on top of a high performance, low resource usage core. It provides online and offline access to all your mail, contacts, calendars, notes, todo’s and more. With a strong focus on usability, the team works with designers and UX experts from the ground up, to build a product that is not only visually appealing but also a joy to use.”
For more info, head over to: kube.kde.org
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