Last night we launched Zimbra Desktop. Same AJAX interface you’ve been using on the web you can now take with you on a trip be it plane, train or auto. It’s even nice for those times your trusty network fails you. Today it supports Mail and Contacts, but Calendar, Documents, and other collaboration features will be coming soon.
This week at E-tech Satish will giving a keynote centered around offline webapps on Tuesday. The following day I’ll be digging in deeper to the architecture of Zimbra Desktop with this talk. Some of our arch decisions were covered in the comments of the Zimbra Offline post. As always you can comment or discuss Zimbra and our new Desktop release on the Zimbra Forums.
on March 26th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
I just downloaded and installed the desktop client and it looks and acts just like the web client.
Congrats!
I do have a few questions/comments though.
Why are the file names for skins different than on the zimbra server? For example, on the server the xml file is called ’skin.xml’ but on the desktop it is called ‘manifest.xml’ and ’skin_subs.txt’ is now ’skin.properties’ (there are others).
Also, how do we get a new skin listed in the desktop options dropdown list? (the Ttt skin is listed there but it is not included and the bones and nature skins are included but not listed).
Thanks for the new addition!
Jim…
on March 26th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Thanks Jim. These skin changes are part of our upcoming 5.0 release. In fact the AJAX client you see in Zimbra Desktop is running on Zimbra 5.0 developer code(one more reason why we chose to release it as Alpha for now). This will make it easier on skin developers who want to copy a current skin. Today there is lots of renaming involved. You can always access a unlisted skin with ?skin=. Skin files can be found in our SVN repos.
http://zimbra.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/zimbra/trunk/ZimbraWebClient/WebRoot/skins/