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[LigH]

I started to use Vivaldi in the hope that it would fulfill the promise to substitute Opera 12 as a wholesome web suite, including a mail and IRC client.

It is still only a browser. And I can still not get rid of Opera 12 completely.

The only other websuite I know is SeaMonkey. But I dislike its style.

[Ayespy]

@ligh M3. with RSS reader, is still in the works. It will happen.

[edwardp]

@ghpy

Actually, there are some messages on the Forum, on this subject going back FOUR years. I'm just about convinced that there will NOT be a mail client in Vivaldi.

I'm disappointed as well.

[Ayespy]

@edwardp Hate to disturb your blue funk, but your conviction is inaccurate, and your disappointment is unwarranted.

[burnout426]

One thing I hope M3 supports is composing/editing text/plain messages with an actual textarea instead of a rich text, document.designMode/contentEditable editor that tries to behave like a plain text editor. M2 did the rich text editor way and it was horribly buggy when composing plain text. There was some benefit in it as you could switch between text/plain and text/html with little loss of current content. But, it just wasn't worth all the problems it caused IMO. Sure, some of it could have been because of presto bugs with designMode, but I still don't trust that method for plain text mail, even with Chromium.

[Para-Noid]

@ayespy It would be nice if users realized that M3 and a RSS reader is going to happen. Any mail client is not an easy task. There are hiccups just waiting to happen. More snafu's than you can shake a stick at. I'm sure that every inside tester has seen more issues than they care to see.

Every day dawns with me opening V just to check out the blog and forums in hopes that I will find M3 has been released. I am both disappointed and relieved at the same time. Disappointed because M3 isn't out yet. Relieved knowing the V team is doing everything possible to have a finished product for us to use.

I want a polished product. Not one filled with bugs.

[Ayespy]

@para-noid said in M3 mail & RSS-reader:

I'm sure that every inside tester has seen more issues than they care to see.

This is, of course, why it's not released yet.

[edwardp]

@ayespy

...after four years...

I'm being reasonable here. It shouldn't take four years to add a mail client.

Since numerous releases of version 1 were introduced, I hoped version 2 would then have it, but alas, no.

Sorry, still disappointed.

[Ayespy]

@edwardp said in M3 mail & RSS-reader:

I'm being reasonable here. It shouldn't take four years to add a mail client.

Yeah, given the scope of the task and the size of the mail team, it should. The client is being written from scratch by a team that started out as just one guy. It's a much more complicated project than a browser.

[becm]

@ayespy said in M3 mail & RSS-reader:

It's a much more complicated project than a browser.

Only when starting both projects on an existing browser platform.

[LonM]

The latest snapshots have stuff in them showing progress is being made on the RSS reader., though it still shows no indication of when it will be ready:

[ROTFL]

@LonM But IMO this should be retagged as IN PROGRESS
@Pesala What do You think?...

[Pesala]

@ROTFL Maybe. It seems to be moving forward.

[ghpy]

Three more months passed and getting closer to three years since 1.0.
Sometimes I wonder whether Otter will be quicker in offering a browser cum mail client.

[LonM]

@ghpy from what I've seen in some recent snapshots, there is lots of work being done internally in getting the rss client ready.

[Folgore101]

@LonM said in M3 mail & RSS-reader:

@ghpy from what I've seen in some recent snapshots, there is lots of work being done internally in getting the rss client ready.

So soon we can test the RSS reader?

[luetage]

@Folgore101 I wouldn't hold my breath for it. But soon is definitely true… The email client itself has been said to come soon for the last 3 years. So yeah, soon I suppose it is.

[Folgore101]

@luetage For M3 it's 4 years that i wait and from what i read i think i'll have to wait a lot longer.
The RSS reader is not fundamental but allows me to remove an extension and to play with this new feature, so that it is welcome.
If then the Calendar arrives shortly i am very curious to test it because, if it does what i have in mind, i could convince the boss to make Vivaldi the main browser on PCs.

[LonM]

@Folgore101 I didn't want to get anyone's hopes too high. The level of "things" I've seen is on par with what I've seen with mail.

Namely it's left overs that the devs probably left in the public snapshots by accident.

That doesn't mean we'll get it very soon, but progress is being made.

[Folgore101]

@LonM No problem, with Vivaldi one must also know how to wait.
The expectation of pleasure is itself a pleasure. (Gotthold Ephraim Lessing)