Bill Davidsen wrote:
Rufus wrote:Chris Ilias wrote:On 11-06-13 2:55 PM, Rufus wrote:Dunno...I was hesitant about 2.0 (in fact, I think I waited until 2.0.something, but I only recall two basic complaints - and most of it was over the Forms Manager. I feel like I'm reading more for 2.1, and of wider varieties...and workarounds that have users altering code? Whassupwiddat?..Most times, it's better to have actual data. SM2.0 was released on Oct 27, 2009. Here's a link to the archive of this newsgroup from that time. <http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.support.seamonkey/browse_frm/month/2009-10?start=750&sa=N> From there, you can go through all the posts made in the first few days and what the volume of traffic was, and compare it to 2.1.Maybe it's because that archive starts with the Release Candidate (which I pretty much ignore - more so after my bad experience with a beta) but in terms of a final release this latest flurry still seems like it's trending to the "more", if' it's not there already.And bear in mind that much of the pre-release chatter was in the development group not this one, so the comparison is really hard to do right.
Yes. Development chatter is all well and good (and required), and in keeping with being an end-user I only bother relating to end/final release commentary.
And since I went and read the release notes and see that PPC support has been dropped...well...now I can't even test drive 2.1 on the machine I depend least upon. So I'll sit out for a bit.I believe you can still use 2.1 in another profile without converting your 2.0 data, but check that before trusting it. And even on Windows I assume you can have another user which is totally independent.
I think what I might do is install it in my Home User Applications folder only - that way I can get rid of it once I decide I really can't stand it. Or alternatively I can just back up my entire 2.0.14 Profile, wipe SM, and restore the required contents from backup to recover...I ended up doing that during my last beta-test disaster. Which is one more reason I'm really skeptical...
...OTOH, having bought an iPad recently is rapidly changing my work flow/habits re: browsing Usenet and surfing the web - I was thinking that Opera Mobile would be just the solution for iPad, but it doesn't operate with Mail/News in tabs like desktop Opera does. Tabs *really* shine on laptops and i-devices, IMO. So I'm left to use Safari or Atomic in combination with something like Newstap on my iPad. Which gets me wondering why I don't just use Safari and Thunderbird on my Macs.
If there isn't a combined suite solution for iPad soon, I may just finally chuck the suite concept altogether after all these years...pity. In fact, the market seems *wide* open for Usenet newsreaders for iOS. An iOS version of SM building on the tab concept would be ideal, and certainly go a far distance to retaining my interest in the combined suite concept. Yeah, I know it would cost some work...but that's why they call it *work*.
--
- Rufus
_______________________________________________
support-seamonkey mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
