On 2005-10-12 | 14:13:40, Derek Martin wrote:
Incidentally, one of the reasons I'm in favor of improving the modularity of mutt's code is so that other UIs can easily be designedfor it.
I would love to see a gtk-mutt one day if that is what you had in mind.
However, I often find a variety of aspects concerning the user interface to be sub-optimal and even outright undesirable; in some ways I think the UI is still in the dark ages.
As said before I have been using mutt for years but switched to Ximian Evolution because I wanted a modern and graphical user agent. I ended with a permanent lack of stability (lost several incomplete messages), no support for format=flowed and 1.2GB of cached IMAP headers. I also tried thunderbird but I have found it inacceptable to manually adjust the view settings for every single IMAP folder.
As Thomas has just admitted, he is rather stubborn (though not any more stubborn than I, myself =8^) ), and seems much more concerned about making mutt behave the way he thinks is right, rather than giving users what they want.
Fortunately most aspects of mutt are configurable. I guess this is what makes the "this one sucks less"-spirit. It just seems that the developers are getting lazy making new things configurable, e.g. the mailboxes browser or the format=flowed pager.
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