On 2009-07-05 03:11, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 01:30:40 pm Ron Johnson wrote:
A few months back, I broke my Kmail config, and decided I'd check
out Thunderbird (I haven't used it since it was part of Netscape
3). I gave it a good go, I really did, but it felt like I was being
asked to do carpentry with my hands cuffed together and a small
monkey riding on my back hitting me with over-ripe bananas.
How so? I've used Tbird for years, after having used Evolution,
KMail (back in the KDE 2.x days) and Nutscrape 2.x-4.78.
Eh, it was just all the little things -- I couldn't get it to look right
(fonts, icons, etc) and I wasn't willing to spend the time customising
it. I didn't need to do that with Kmail -- the default look just is
nicer, in my opinion, although I realise that's a subjective feeling.
Maybe mine's been configured for so long that I don't remember any
more...
And I kept running into gotchas that annoyed me. Things like, when I
would show all headers in a mail with the intention of copying them, I
discovered that each line was a separate text control and you couldn't
select text from two header lines simultaneously. Apparently you're
expected to use a completely different interface, the View Source
command, and select text from that. Grrr arggghhh.
The Mnenhy extension makes that easy. And reply-to-list is another
vital add-on, especially for mailing lists (debian-*, for example)
that don't munge reply-to headers.
--
Scooty Puff, Sr
The Doom-Bringer
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