Re: Bug#352535: ITP: gitmail -- Very simple graphical mail user agent for sending mail (GTK)
On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 03:35 -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 10:07:45AM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:
> > Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
> >
> > > On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 01:16 +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:
> > >>
> > >> The speciality is the small size + GUI to send mail. Useful for
> > >> low end harware (166Mhz / 64 M mem).
> > >
> > > But that's just it. It's for *sending* mail only. What is the
> > > purpose of a GUI for sending mail?
> >
> > The small memory footprint. In minimalistic Window manager +
> > minimalistic program to send mail.
>
> Err, who uses GTK when "small memory footprint" or "minimalistic"
> are objectives?
XFce is lighter than GNOME.
And writing in GTK is (supposed to be) easier that writing Xlib.
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