On Sat, 18 Jan 2020, Antonis Tsolomitis wrote:
I agree with Jon. CDE has more important challenges to deal with in the future than dtmail, starting with Wayland.
IMHO, the "retiring" idea keeps the code around for whoever might want to unearth it and work on it, and it gets it out of the way of the build. It's a perfect solution, IMHO. I like personally, because it occurs to me that if I strap it with a GNU autoconfig or cmake rig in there, I might be able to work on it without getting in the way of others.
Xwayland exists but for how long? They consider it a transition set of patches.
I hope Wayland succeeds, it's design is elegant, the participants seem to care about code quality, and everyone's heart is in the right place.
Delicately, let me observe that no matter how cleanly Wayland is designed, breaking everything (ie.. --without-Xwayland (X11)) isn't a happy prospect for X11 application devs like me, fans of C99, classic environment (ie.. retro) folks who will be stuck in "incompatible" environments, XDMCP users, or apparently commercial driver makers like Intel, Nvidia, and ATI. Maybe Wayland isn't a forgone conclusion?
Moreover I find it more important for a desktop to have proper access to utf-8 fonts than to have a mailer.
I admit my opinion might be parochial as an American ASCII, ANSI, and CP437 lover, but I'm still dreaming of a fantasy dtmail with features like Claws or Thunderbird but UTF-8... meh.
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