On Friday, 2014-10-17, 04:42:25, Shai Berger wrote: > On Tuesday 14 October 2014 11:42:53 Kevin Krammer wrote: > > On Monday, 2014-10-13, 16:41:58, john Culleton wrote: > > > When the switch was made from KDE3.5 to KDE4 I > > > struggled with KDE and kmail for a while but > > > ultimately adopted the XFCE GUI and also Claws > > > Mail. Thus far I have seen no compelling reason > > > to go back to KDE or its utilities like kmail. > > I usually find this sort of "let's drop KMail and KDE" messages on this list > distasteful. How are they promoting any interest of the members of this > list? Well, I wouldn't say distasteful, but rather strange. Why would anyone drop a program because an unrelated different program does not fit the person's requirements? > > You mean that the classic unix virtue of separating functions into > > discrete > > programs as used by KMail2's architecture is not viable for end user > > programs? > > > > And that a more monolithic approach of having everything in one program > > works better and should have been used like in Claws? > > That said, I also find defenses of KMail2 odd. KMail2 is not > production-quality software, and as far as I'm aware, never has been. I was obviously not commenting on any of that, neither was the posting I replied to. The author of which seemed to either have difficulties phrasing his thoughts or labour under a misunderstanding. I guessed the latter so I tried to provide input to ideally clear the misunderstanding. It is easy for non-developers to say something they've read elsewhere in a context where it contradicts the rest of what they say. Cheers, Kevin
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