* Christian Dysthe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Ok, I will be more specific: *If* it is a goal to have more people > use the OS based on the Linux kernel in their day to day business > and private computing, good GUI based software is/will be needed.
Whose goal? You claim that GUI software is needed, presumably by someone, but offer no solutions to the most important problem: Who is going to write it? I, for one, am not going to sacrifice my time, and perhaps money, fixing a problem that has been fixed well for some time now. It simply is not interesting. The thankless task of developing GUI software that no one will use, including myself, and will lag behind the robust software that already solves the same problem is not appealing to nor, I assume, many others. If you are willing to pay for the software to be developed, that is an entirely different matter, but, again, I assume that people wanting to use Linux in their day to day business and private computing are not the people that are willing to pay for a picture of an envelope on a send button. > If you need to wrap your head around something it is too > complicated. That, sir, was irony. It seems obvious to me that to view email, one needs something that displays text. Every email client is basically a collection of text areas all connected together to do one job: create and read email. > My point was only that this guy asks for a GUI mailer recommendation > and gets several mails talking about mutt, and I find > that...ummm...interesting! :) As do I, but for different reasons. -- Copyleft (c) 2001, Scott Moynes
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