[Sheflug] B0rked email clients (was: Login Screen just to please A.B. :)

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On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:52:36PM +0100, Will Newton wrote:
> > I think, though, that word-wrapping is more a receiver than sender problem - I'm using mutt, and I can't believe mutt defaults to anything other than strictly conformant :) I'm pretty sure Evolution does wrapping for you.
> 
> Pine wraps when viewing but not when editing/replying/quoting.
> Please don't do it.

So what I am supposed to do ? Wrap at 74? 76? Maybe 70? If quotes go to two deep, that means you can have '> > ' which breaks lines at 76.. and of course, it assumes we're all using 80-column terminals to read our mail (hint: I'm not). 

I probably will turn wrapping on my mail clients, just to shut the whiners up :) But note, I never complain about what gets sent to me, I accept word-wrapped, non-word-wrapped, rtf, MIME encoded, HTML, etc. It really doesn't matter, because my client handles them all perfectly well. I don't mind attachments, I just don't care. Other people might do well to be less anal (miaow :) and follow the maxim 'be liberal in what you accept, and strict in what you send'... if I was to configure my client to send 'email' in everybody's preferred format, I basically wouldn't be able to send anyone anything.... 

> Couldn't be bothered with the boat load of in development libraries it
> requires just to start up.
> GNOME really need to get their act together, they are light years behind
> KDE at the moment, who have a faster release cycle and more sensible
> packaging.

Hmm.... magellan, aethera et al. all require KDE libs.. and I don't see why beta software shouldn't rely on development libs :-) I suppose you're just giving your reason for not trying it though, rather than criticising.. as for releasing, mmm, possibly. They're going to be at 1.4 very soon, but I'm kind of sticking with it because KDE seems to get less and less Free all the time. I don't really like the look of what the Kompany is about, for example, but I s'pose it's personal choice. 

On a different tack - Mozilla 0.8.1 was downloaded and installed today. Apart from the upgrade being a little ropey (I've never had this problem with the previous versions!! It didn't seem to like my old ~/.mozilla), and it not wanting to load my bookmarks (both problems now sorted though :), I can say it's looking even better. It's now faster than Galeon was a few builds ago, and it looks like they're still improving (0.8 was visibly faster, 0.8.1 is, hopefully 0.9 will be as well). The GUI feels about the same speed as GTK on my machine, and faster than xforms (well, lyx), and Moz on the whole feels faster than IE5 running on W2K Pro via vmware (take from that what you will). 

Cheers.

Alex.
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