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

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 home [at] alexhudson.com wrote:

> 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).

It's not so much for me, but the group as a whole. My client doesn't
handle long lines well (as this mail shows), and the problem is
exascerbated by further replies making it all a bit of a mess.

> 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.

Unfortunately most libs that evolution needs seem to be incompatible with
what stable GNOME apps need, so I'm waiting for 1.4 before installing any
of them.

The Kompany have released some OK GPL software, it's up to them if they
want to sell proprietary stuff too IMO. Not that I'm going to rush and buy
any of it. The only thing they have that I'm interested in is the Python
IDE, but they're not the only ones selling one - a Python IDE is one of
those things somewhere low down on my todo list, maybe one day I'll get my
finger out and write some code.

> 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).

I'll have to give it a go now some stripped RPMS are available...


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