Re: A good GUI MUA? - Was: Gnome3 and Wheezy.

2012-11-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:02:41 +0100 Andreas Rönnquist wrote: > > > PS: I wonder if there is some hidden config for Claws. Each time I > > reply to the Debian mailing list, I've to remove the one who replied > > from the "To" field and change debian-user(at)lists.debian.org from > > "Cc" to "To".

Re: A good GUI MUA? - Was: Gnome3 and Wheezy.

2012-11-15 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
> PS: I wonder if there is some hidden config for Claws. Each time I > reply to the Debian mailing list, I've to remove the one who replied > from the "To" field and change debian-user(at)lists.debian.org from > "Cc" to "To". Evolution does "reply to mailing list only", if wanted. > Using Claws -

Re: Gnome3 and Wheezy.

2012-11-15 Thread Gernot Super
I have been quite satisfied with Gnome 2 in Squeeze, but as a testing user i tried the new shiny GNOME 3 for a month when it came out in unstable/experimental and was quite shocked of the non-usability, besides the fact i needed proprietary drivers to run it. Then i switched to XFCE 4.8 and got

Re: Gnome3 and Wheezy.

2012-11-15 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 07:09:31AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Forget your issues with GNOME and switch to Xfce4. +99 I can't recommend this highly enough. You're not alone in finding GNOME3 less than useful given that it's a complete trainwreck. XFCE is, in practice, the current desktop of cho

Re: Gnome3 and Wheezy.

2012-11-15 Thread Gernot Super
I'm using MATE (GNOME 2 Fork: http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download) for quite a while now. And imo it's pretty stable and you won't notice that much difference compared to squeeze. Give it a try :-) Am 14.11.2012 23:04, schrieb GEOFF BAGLEY: I have been looking forward to the update of my fav

Re: A good GUI MUA? - Was: Gnome3 and Wheezy.

2012-11-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:33:30 + Jon Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:17:52AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I made less good experiences when using IMAP, e.g. thousands of > > mails once were loaded 2 times. > > That sounds more likely to be a problem with your MUA than with the >

Re: Gnome3 and Wheezy.

2012-11-15 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:04:10PM +, GEOFF BAGLEY wrote: > I have poor eye-sight, and make much use of "CTRL shift +" > to magnify that which I need to see, and "CTRL -" to > reverse. This was not possible in many GNOME3 cases. GNOME3 has an "accessibility" icon (silhouette of a human over a

Re: A good GUI MUA? - Was: Gnome3 and Wheezy.

2012-11-15 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:17:52AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I made less good experiences when using IMAP, e.g. thousands of mails > once were loaded 2 times. That sounds more likely to be a problem with your MUA than with the imapd. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

Re: A good GUI MUA? - Was: Gnome3 and Wheezy.

2012-11-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:02:42 +0530 Kushal Kumaran wrote: > Ralf Mardorf writes: > > > On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 01:43 -0500, Neal Murphy wrote: > >> On Thursday, November 15, 2012 01:09:31 AM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> > Shortcuts to resize the view do > >> > work for Thunar, Xfce's file browser. Suc

Re: A good GUI MUA? - Was: Gnome3 and Wheezy.

2012-11-14 Thread Kushal Kumaran
Ralf Mardorf writes: > On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 01:43 -0500, Neal Murphy wrote: >> On Thursday, November 15, 2012 01:09:31 AM Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> > Shortcuts to resize the view do >> > work for Thunar, Xfce's file browser. Such shortcuts depend to the >> > applications you're using, the view shor

A good GUI MUA? - Was: Gnome3 and Wheezy.

2012-11-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 01:43 -0500, Neal Murphy wrote: > On Thursday, November 15, 2012 01:09:31 AM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Shortcuts to resize the view do > > work for Thunar, Xfce's file browser. Such shortcuts depend to the > > applications you're using, the view shortcuts are at least common for

Re: Gnome3 and Wheezy.

2012-11-14 Thread Neal Murphy
On Thursday, November 15, 2012 01:09:31 AM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Shortcuts to resize the view do > work for Thunar, Xfce's file browser. Such shortcuts depend to the > applications you're using, the view shortcuts are at least common for > all web browsers I know. I've found works on a number of

Re: Gnome3 and Wheezy.

2012-11-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
As Worrier Poet already has written. A lot of us dropped KDE4 and GNOME3 at the time, they changed their policies. I first switched from KDE3 to GNOME2 and then from GNOME2 to Xfce. Shortcuts to resize the view do work for Thunar, Xfce's file browser. Such shortcuts depend to the applications you'r

Re: Gnome3 and Wheezy.

2012-11-14 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:04:10PM +, GEOFF BAGLEY wrote: > I have been looking forward to the update of > my favourite operating system Debian from > squeeze to wheezy. > > I thought it would be interesting to update > one of my machines ( an amd64 bit ASUS), > and I have just spent two da

Re: Gnome3 and Wheezy.

2012-11-14 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2012 14 Nov 17:47 -0600, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 14 November 2012 22:23:44 Worrier Poet wrote: > > I understand > > that there's a branch of Gnome 2 still under development, but not by the > > Gnome project people. > > Mate. And I understood that many of the developers had simply ju

Re: Gnome3 and Wheezy.

2012-11-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 14 November 2012 22:23:44 Worrier Poet wrote: > I understand > that there's a branch of Gnome 2 still under development, but not by the > Gnome project people. Mate. And I understood that many of the developers had simply jumped ship. There is also Cinnamon, but I haven't quite gat

Re: Gnome3 and Wheezy.

2012-11-14 Thread Matt Jenny
The Gnome2 fork is called MATE, I have been using it for the past few months and have had no problems with it, though I have not tried that magnification shortcut you mentioned. On Nov 14, 2012 5:04 PM, "GEOFF BAGLEY" wrote: > I have been looking forward to the update of > my favourite operating

Re: Gnome3 and Wheezy.

2012-11-14 Thread Andrew Wood
My only complaint about Gnome 3 is that it only seems to work with Intel graphics chips and no one seems to know (or want to tell me) how to make it work with anything else On 14/11/12 22:23, Worrier Poet wrote: On 11/14/2012 05:04 PM, GEOFF BAGLEY wrote: I have been looking forward to the up

Re: Gnome3 and Wheezy.

2012-11-14 Thread Worrier Poet
On 11/14/2012 05:04 PM, GEOFF BAGLEY wrote: > I have been looking forward to the update of > my favourite operating system Debian from > squeeze to wheezy. > > I thought it would be interesting to update > one of my machines ( an amd64 bit ASUS), > and I have just spent two days trying to use >

Gnome3 and Wheezy.

2012-11-14 Thread GEOFF BAGLEY
I have been looking forward to the update of my favourite operating system Debian from squeeze to wheezy. I thought it would be interesting to update one of my machines ( an amd64 bit ASUS), and I have just spent two days trying to use the new desktop Gnome3. I have been SO disappointed that a