Re: [gentoo-user] Re: thunderbird "fixed" folders? [SOLVED]

[Indi]

On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 01:16:27PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 12:34 on Monday 06 June 2011, Indi did opine
> thusly:
>
> > On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 10:27:48AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > Believe it or not you are supposed to "make invisible" all the junk the
> > > app created.
> >
> > Well, once you get some of the amazingly bone-headed defaults corrected
> > tbird is pretty nice -- for people with eagle eyes who don't need an
> > integrated addressbook function, which describes no-one I know....
> >
> > After much googling the conclusion is many many people are desperately
> > unhappy about the fonts in tbrd and incredibly, it ain't fixable!
> > Hard-coded font sizes -- isn't that, like, retardn00b mistake #4?
> >
> > :)
>
> No, no, no! Surely you jest?
>
> tbird is a Moz product. Rendering stuff on screen is almost everything that
> they do ... everything else supporting just that one thing
>

Yes, well isn't their cluelessness regarding defaults kind of legendary?
I can't use firefox at all without pentadactyl installed.

> > Another giant, glaring flaw: Doesn't appear to be any addressbook
> > integration whatsoever that I can find, so it's necessary to pretend
> > it's the 80s and remember the ancient practice of clunkily, manually
> > C & P from the *separate* addressbook. Jeeeezus, and people think mutt
> > is barebones, LOL (address autocompletion Just Works in mutt).
> >
> > I've already got a whopper of an eyestrain headache just from
> > testing it.
> >
> > Tbird dismissed, not a realistic option.
> > My users will bitch a blue streak over the lack of address autocomplete,
> > god forbid they should have to type anything longer than "OMGLOL"...
>
> I kinda liked claws last time I tried it (earlier this year). Much like KMail
> of old it just does mail and does it well.
>
> I found I couldn't use it though - I rely on the KDE addressbook a lot (it's
> hooked into the GAL) and claws tended to get *really* upset everytime Exchange
> pulled it's usual stunt of popping out for 20 minutes coffee breaks 4 times a
> day.
>
> That's not claws' fault - I squarely blame Exchange for
>
> a) Advertising it does IMAP but doesn't really pay attention to standards
> b) Saying the service is up when it isn't really
>
> KMail OTOH, just sits in the corner and quietly sulks when Exchange goes away;
> then tries again in 15 minutes. Which suits me just fine. The requirement for
> kdelibs doesn't bother me - this is a KDE machine
>

Thanks for that info, fortunately no exchange integration is required here.
Claws is the next victim, in fact I've just emerged it.
But now I need a break til the aspirin kicks in.
Damn tbird...

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