I’ve played with Google’s Ajax Desktop, as well as Netvibes, and I don’t get what the big deal is.

Does anyone else think this is a minor evolution of that canonical 90’s bubble icon, the search portal?

I’m trying out RoundCube, an early-stage web-based IMAP mail client with the AJAX interface I’ve come to expect.

I’m putting 0.1-20051021 on bonzo.

After unzipping the tarball, I have to create a new MySQL database for RoundCube, per the INSTALL file in the tarball:

$ mysqladmin -u root -p create roundcube
$ mysql -u root -p
mysql> grant all privileges on roundcube.* to 'roundcube'@'localhost' identified by '[secret]';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.13 sec)
mysql> flush privileges;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec)

Next I edited the DB config, in config/db.inc.php. The only line that needed changing was: