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Apparently, though unproven, at 12:34 on Monday 06 June 2011, Indi did opine |
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> On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 10:27:48AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > Believe it or not you are supposed to "make invisible" all the junk the |
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> > app created. |
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> Well, once you get some of the amazingly bone-headed defaults corrected |
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> tbird is pretty nice -- for people with eagle eyes who don't need an |
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> integrated addressbook function, which describes no-one I know.... |
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> After much googling the conclusion is many many people are desperately |
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> unhappy about the fonts in tbrd and incredibly, it ain't fixable! |
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> Hard-coded font sizes -- isn't that, like, retardn00b mistake #4? |
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> :) |
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No, no, no! Surely you jest? |
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tbird is a Moz product. Rendering stuff on screen is almost everything that |
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they do ... everything else supporting just that one thing |
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> Another giant, glaring flaw: Doesn't appear to be any addressbook |
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> integration whatsoever that I can find, so it's necessary to pretend |
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> it's the 80s and remember the ancient practice of clunkily, manually |
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> C & P from the *separate* addressbook. Jeeeezus, and people think mutt |
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> is barebones, LOL (address autocompletion Just Works in mutt). |
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> I've already got a whopper of an eyestrain headache just from |
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> testing it. |
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> Tbird dismissed, not a realistic option. |
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> My users will bitch a blue streak over the lack of address autocomplete, |
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> god forbid they should have to type anything longer than "OMGLOL"... |
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I kinda liked claws last time I tried it (earlier this year). Much like KMail |
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of old it just does mail and does it well. |
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I found I couldn't use it though - I rely on the KDE addressbook a lot (it's |
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hooked into the GAL) and claws tended to get *really* upset everytime Exchange |
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pulled it's usual stunt of popping out for 20 minutes coffee breaks 4 times a |
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day. |
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That's not claws' fault - I squarely blame Exchange for |
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a) Advertising it does IMAP but doesn't really pay attention to standards |
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b) Saying the service is up when it isn't really |
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KMail OTOH, just sits in the corner and quietly sulks when Exchange goes away; |
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then tries again in 15 minutes. Which suits me just fine. The requirement for |
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kdelibs doesn't bother me - this is a KDE machine |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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