The release of the Geary 40.0 email client has been published, aimed at use in the GNOME environment. The project was originally founded by the Yorba Foundation, which created the popular photo manager Shotwell, but later development was taken over by the GNOME community. The code is written in Vala and is distributed under the LGPL license. Ready assemblies will soon be prepared in the form of a self-contained flatpak package.
The goal of the development of the project is to create a product rich in features, but at the same time extremely easy to use and consuming a minimum of resources. The mail client is designed for both stand-alone use and to work in conjunction with web-based mail services such as Gmail and Yahoo! Mail. The interface is implemented using the GTK3+ library. The SQLite database is used to store the message base, and a full-text index is created to search through the message base. To work with IMAP, a new library based on GObject is used, which works in asynchronous mode (mail download operations do not block the interface).
Key innovations:
- The interface design has been updated, new icons have been added.
- Added support for display modes on small screens, half screen and portrait mode.
- Improved performance for displaying large discussions.
- The full-text search engine has been updated.
- Improved hotkeys.
- Improved compatibility with mail servers.
Source: opennet.ru