Anjal – Slick Evolution Interface For Netbooks

By , Published October 4, 2009

Anjai is a custom Evolution interface designed for use on netbooks, with it’s main screen optimized for 1024×600 sized screens.

 
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ROFL! Useless Trivia!
Anjal means E-Mail in Tamil.

Stylish (and useful!)
Using WebKit for its mail rendering and composing makes Anjal look very slick.

It has big small-screen friendly buttons for navigating the vitals. Uses tabbed browsing to display messages and in-boxes, has thread support (yay GMail!) as well as multi-account usage.

The preference options are basic – merely consisting of account config, but most important mail-sorting features can be found and configured in the main interface. (i..e Mail Sorting, etc)

Get it

If you’re using Karmic you can install Anjal through the software centre. Just search for ‘Anjal’, or in a terminal: –

  • sudo apt-get install anjal
Jaunty & Ibex

You’ll need to build it from source, sadly. Never fear as the tutorial on the official site is easy peasy!

  • http://live.gnome.org/Anjal/Installation

./Notes 

  • It calls itself ‘Email’ in the Internet menu.
  • Anjal is slightly too wide for 7" netbooks, but still perfectly useable.
  • It does need Evolution installed.
  • Official site @ http://live.gnome.org/Anjal/
Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • http://seifsallam.co.cc/ Seif Sallam

    i like to use netbook interface for applications on my laptop, even if its 15”, but space is good

  • Venkatesh Nandakumar

    Nice. Wonder how they chose the tamil name for it..

  • p45

    ^ maybe because the creator is tamil,

    why do the fonts look awful in the screenshot

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      I’ve no idea… i think it’s the compression as in full it looks fine. I’ve reupped it.

      I would use a screenshot from my netbook, but alas i have a eee701 and thus a 7″ screen >_<

  • Mohan

    I like the interface, but I have also gotten very much used to Thunderbird 3 and it’s kinda hard for me to use any other email client now. :)

  • Ben

    I imagine that Tamil users will find the name a bit presumptuous…

  • http://jado92mx.wordpress.com jado92mx

    It looks great, it really help in saving important screen space… It’s a pity, because I’m a Thunderbird fan ;)

    Greetings!
    JaD!

  • http://awesome-in-a-can.blogspot.com Jonathan

    No offense, but before I put on my glasses it looked like “ANAL”