Mozillazine (http://www.mozillazine.org) posted this news a little while ago.

Minotaur (http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/minotaur/m...ur-roadmap.html), the Mail/News client branched from Mozilla, has builds released for Win32, MacOSX, and Linux platforms. The Win32 build was just recently updated using trunk code from current Mozilla builds, and the other platforms have a client using 1.3a Mozilla Mail/News code.

The goal of Minotaur is to break off completely and form a stand-along Mail/News client based off Gecko and utilizing the Mozilla GRE. More information can be found at the above links. Download link provided below.

Download: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/minotaur/

    Partial changlog, Opera for Windows since 7.10 Beta 3:
  • A number of crashfixes
  • Selection focus fix
  • Support for opening session files (win files) from hotlist and address bar
  • Use default open-dir if there is no import path
  • Send note by mail on context menu
  • Don't let Alt+something get redirected to document, but always let windows try to translate.. this fixes Alt-code input into forms fields and the Alt-Space bug when focus is in document
  • Show title tooltips for nonlinks
  • Added user controlled scaling of skin images
  • Fixed bug where paste acted like paste-and-go in search fields
  • Editing standard settupfiles like keyboard and mouse.ini will now create a copy
  • Fixed text-decoration bleeding bug
  • Disk cache wasnt possible to turn off
  • Enter to search next only worked for search dropdown, not for the personal bar search field.
  • Fixed bug with Copy File Information in transfer window.
  • Fix bug with max number of connections
  • Double-click a note to create an e-mail if the note doesn't have a URL attached and focus isn't already in a edit field.
  • Fix for "changing action from filetype box via download dialog does not stick"
  • Fix for cookies being set even though refuse if clicked
  • Fix for alt+tab problems
  • Do not allow deletion of the standard setupfiles
  • Font resize fix
  • Fix for shift click focus
  • Fix for dropdowns, sometimes selecting nothing.
  • Changing from "Folders" to "Views" in personal access points in m2 to avoid confusion. "Copy to" is changed to "Show in"
  • POP: Only show percentage when needed
  • RAR-attachment should show same icon as ZIP-attachment
  • Imported mails (or other messages where account might be gone) wouldn't show body
  • Show gesture dialog before first gesture
  • Tuned some dialog images
  • Progress skinable
  • Show search prefs when selecting properties on a personal bar search field
  • Shift+Space should work better in mail views now (when focus is on list of mails)
  • Option to open pages as 1) Always maximized, 2) Remember last size/position, 3) Always cascade
  • Added clock to customize toolbars
  • Better dropping of contacts into compose edits
  • Added rewind and fast forward to menus
  • assigned gesture right->up to fast forwarf and left->down to rewind
  • assigned shift-x and shift-z to fast forward and rewind


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(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by WishX on 10 Apr 2003 - 22:05
As new as it is, is it even worth using for your average Joe yet or is it primarily for developers and alpha junkies?
Quote this comment #1.1 Posted by mAcOdIn on 10 Apr 2003 - 22:17
[neoquote=#1.0 by WishX]As new as it is, is it even worth using for your average Joe yet or is it primarily for developers and alpha junkies?[/neoquote] It's actually basically the Mail component from Mozilla 1.3 in a standalone package so it's actually pretty stable right now.
(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by BearOso on 11 Apr 2003 - 03:33
This'll become part of the Mozilla suite eventually, as evidenced by the roadmap. Speaking of the roadmap, did anyone notice the reference to a "Thunderbird" on there. Maybe Thunderbird is Phoenix's new name.
Quote this comment #2.1 Posted by mAcOdIn on 11 Apr 2003 - 04:29
[neoquote=#2.0 by BearOso]This'll become part of the Mozilla suite eventually, as evidenced by the roadmap. Speaking of the roadmap, did anyone notice the reference to a "Thunderbird" on there. Maybe Thunderbird is Phoenix's new name. [/neoquote] It was my understanding that thunderbird was what minotaur was going to be called, so I'd gather that minotaur=thunderbird just not on the Phoenix toolset. But I could be wrong, I'm totally lost on thier naming right now lol.
Quote this comment #2.2 Posted by havyn on 11 Apr 2003 - 04:35
Actually, I believe you are partially correct. The plan was for Mozilla to break up into standalone parts, Thunderbird being the browser, and Minotaur being the Mail/News client. However, with the relanding of phoenix into the trunk (soon to come), I think that Thunderbird will basically be Phoenix with some Moz handling. Not sure about that though, but that is my understanding.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by mAcOdIn on 11 Apr 2003 - 05:05
From http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap.html "Develop further the standalone mail companion application to Phoenix already begun as Minotaur, but based on the new XUL toolkit used by Phoenix (this variant has been codenamed Thunderbird). Note: the Phoenix toolkit is a compatible reimplementation of the XPFE toolkit, with added features such as customizable toolbars. We are not starting a new C++ GUI toolkit, we are simply moving to the next generation XUL toolkit." So it'd seem that minotaur is thunderbird without the Phoenix toolkit.
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