Re: [gentoo-user] Re: alternative to thunderbird?

2012-02-23 Thread Juan Diego Tascón
+1 for sup On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Wednesday 22 February 2012 20:14:05 Alan McKinnon wrote: You'd have to read The Mythical ManMonth to truly do it justice (it's a really good book for developers btw). That book used to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: alternative to thunderbird?

2012-02-22 Thread Grant
Likewise for debugging the kdepim mess when it was already working well in the old kde.  What ARE they thinking?  Reminds me of our US Congress, all advertising and no product. kdepim devs are just making a simple classic mistake that's been made over and over and over again. Developers do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: alternative to thunderbird?

2012-02-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:26:01 -0800 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Likewise for debugging the kdepim mess when it was already working well in the old kde.  What ARE they thinking?  Reminds me of our US Congress, all advertising and no product. kdepim devs are just making a simple

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: alternative to thunderbird?

2012-02-22 Thread Grant
kdepim devs are just making a simple classic mistake that's been made over and over and over again. Developers do not learn from history, every time this mistake is made the team doing it thinks *they* will be different. What is that classic mistake?  Is it the shark jumping thing? No,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: alternative to thunderbird?

2012-02-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 22 February 2012 20:14:05 Alan McKinnon wrote: You'd have to read The Mythical ManMonth to truly do it justice (it's a really good book for developers btw). That book used to be required reading in my coding days (70s and 80s). On our projects we used to say: the first 50% of the

[gentoo-user] Re: alternative to thunderbird?

2012-02-21 Thread walt
On 02/20/2012 01:33 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:11:07 +0100 Jorge Martínez López jorg...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I might be a little bit on the radical side, but with seeing the whole KDEPIM debacle I migrated to GNOME 3 and Evolution. It took me some time to get used to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: alternative to thunderbird?

2012-02-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:56:31 -0800 walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: Likewise for debugging the kdepim mess when it was already working well in the old kde. What ARE they thinking? Reminds me of our US Congress, all advertising and no product. kdepim devs are just making a simple classic mistake

[gentoo-user] Re: alternative to thunderbird?

2012-02-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-02-18, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I just switched from firefox to chromium (thanks to you guys) and I'm loving it. What would you recommend for getting away from thunderbird? I'm looking for something simple and minimal. mutt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: alternative to thunderbird?

2012-02-19 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 02/19/12 11:02, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2012-02-18, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I just switched from firefox to chromium (thanks to you guys) and I'm loving it. What would you recommend for getting away from thunderbird? I'm looking for something simple and minimal. mutt I