On Sunday 23 April 2006 14:51, you wrote: > > PuTTY is not the way to run KMail on windows ;-) > > Actually, it sure is :)
I disagree ... how many actual cases of this really occur? 1. Just because the ability is there does not mean it is good idea. Sure it is possible, but so is reading your mail by running cat /var/spool/mail/gustin ... I don't think you do that now do you? 2. The standard UNIX mentality is having applications doing their small scope of tasks and doing it well. PuTTY is a remote session interface ... it is not a remote desktop interface. Sure you can launch X11 forwarded applications to a PC X server ... is that the paradigm PuTTY was meant for ... I would say no. 3. The whole idea of expending effort to run X11 applications on windows is working against the community if you ask me. If windows users are always provided a way to run these desired applications without actually running the operating system they are built upon, what incentive is there for people to ever stop using windows? Andy _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
