Hello, I’m new here, at least to Evolution. This was translated using DeepL. I previously used Kontact as my email client, but since updating to the Trixie branch, the search function no longer worked, which is why I switched to Evolution. What I miss here, or rather in Evolution, is that selected text in an email cannot be translated directly from the app, at least I haven’t found a way to do it yet. I always have to copy the text, paste it into the DeepL browser and have it translated, which is a bit cumbersome. It would be nice if it were easier.
I have the same issue, and resolve it using the “Translate clipboard” gnome extension ( Translate clipboard - GNOME Shell Extensions ). If you use Gnome as DE, have a try.
Wishes
Thanks for the tip, but no, I’m still using KDE. Is there a trick for this too? And I have one more quick question, see attached image: At the very bottom of the image is the Show in HTML button. Is there any way I can move this to the top toolbar, where the trash can, spam mail, etc. buttons are?
Evolution has no such plugin/extension, I’m sorry. I’m not aware of any
workaround (though I never needed it, thus I also never looked for any
such thing).
At the very bottom of the image is the Show in HTML button. Is there
any way I can move this to the top toolbar, where the trash can, spam
mail, etc. buttons are?
That belongs to an attachment. Having there multiple attachments you’ll
see similar buttons for each of them. These cannot be moved anywhere
else.
Funny that you ask this now. I just signed up to this board to post exactly about this.. perfect timing!
I just developed a new plugin (see here) to do exactly what you mention: in-app translation of emails. It is not perfect, and definitely not tested thoroughly against all Linux flavours and versions (the packaged deb is for Ubuntu Noble), but it works for me.
For now it has options to run completely local (less accurate but a bit faster if you have a GPU) or online (sends the body text to Google.. Somewhat slower for longer emails but more accurate results). I plan to add more online providers in the future, and possibly the option to hook local LLMs.
Let me know if you end up testing it! I am curious to know if it works for others too
