Re: [tlug] Suse 8.0 & gnome updates

[Jonathan Q <jq@example.com>]

Bruno Raoult (br@example.com) wrote:

> (I mean long-term) in the gnome environment? In fact, I wonder if 
> balsa/gnomecard will
> survive the evolution package. What is your opinion on it?

I'm sure mutt will survive evolution :-)  B/c mutt is - no kidding -
probably 1000 times faster.  OK, maybe only 100, but Evo is really,
really slow.  They set out to make an Outlook work-a-like, and
they sure succeeded :-p

OK, Evo is actually better than Outlook, but speedwise it's in
the same category.  Possibly even worse.  Which means that people
migrating from Windows will really feel at home with it :-)

There are some good mail clients out there in the GUI world and
some have some bells/whistles/features it would be neat to have.
They all have a common problem though - to get those BWF, I have
to give up the ones that make mutt so great.  Now, somebody could
write a GUI mailer that worked like mutt.  Heck, I'd take
a stab at it myself if I had the ability in that area.  I guess
that's an itch no one has really needed scratched so far.
People using mutt are happy enough with it as-is, and people not
using it probably wonder why the rest of us do.

Try dealing with ~20,000 mails/day in a graphical mail client
and you'll know :-)

Will gnomecard survive?  Who knows, but .signature will :-)

J