From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RzcqQ-0004uW-9r for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:40:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 791A8E0BC2; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:40:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3EBEE074F for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:39:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbdr12 with SMTP id dr12so4978693wgb.10 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:39:24 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of alan.mckinnon@gmail.com designates 10.180.107.2 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.180.107.2; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of alan.mckinnon@gmail.com designates 10.180.107.2 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=alan.mckinnon@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=alan.mckinnon@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.180.107.2]) by 10.180.107.2 with SMTP id gy2mr21065534wib.12.1329781164041 (num_hops = 1); Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:39:24 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=skA+1SstsY8CYxfshkIwpaN6lxwCVT5bBxZJkBo57YQ=; b=VN94lao37HhodINd0N6vs02qte/wBex+pxqy3lsUPTLDigHIN08nGliY+IylngHqwc kANVIkRl9Wf32qDUmQ53TQhFKm597imdB+twPb0oMz9Ipg5wrvneBWsk07G/GW/t4RvZ FPqtyLlUGs1wjUqZpc+fA+/6FyCetXXR7g3gQ= Received: by 10.180.107.2 with SMTP id gy2mr17574036wib.12.1329781164004; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:39:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from khamul.example.com (196-215-2-107.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.215.2.107]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id cs4sm46735430wib.8.2012.02.20.15.39.22 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:39:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:39:15 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alternative to thunderbird? Message-ID: <20120221013915.27743418@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: <20120220232437.7457cc47@digimed.co.uk> References: <1329721126.28534.2.camel@fuzztop> <20120220233324.7b745f87@khamul.example.com> <20120220232437.7457cc47@digimed.co.uk> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1784f58e-4a95-4d51-a3e8-44ed16d6b456 X-Archives-Hash: f08be160e38e6999c2162fa2d9550845 On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:24:37 +0000 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:33:24 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > I might be a little bit on the radical side, but with seeing the > > > whole KDEPIM debacle I migrated to GNOME 3 and Evolution. It took > > > me some time to get used to it but I like it. > > > No, I wouldn't say that's radical. I would say that is common sense. > > > > A core piece of KDE didn't work for you, and you need that core > > piece to work right. > > I wouldn't call KDEPIM a core piece of KDE. If it were core, it > probably wouldn't have been allowed to get into the state it is in. Let me elaborate. Not so much a core piece of KDE itself so that everything else needs it to work, more a core piece in that the average user feels the DE is severely neutered without it. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com