Re: Poll: personal convenience vs. global improvement of docs
On 14:35 Mon 29 May 2006, Seth Williamson wrote:
> But I am starting to wonder about the ratio of payback to
> investment.
This is true with even Linux itself. We could have spent our time watching
movies or exercising or just relax or play a game instead of staring at the
screen and work our fingers hard but forever retaining our 'spare tire'.
> trying to get mutt to send and retrieve gmail properly and I guess I
> will eventually get it, but I couldn't help notice that, while I took a
> break in working on mutt, I was able to configure Kmail to do the job in
> about 90 seconds. Now, maybe mutt will eventually save me time on my
Many things that can be done under windows for 90 seconds could take 9 hours
under Linux.
> daily e-mail work--I don't know enough about it to say for sure. But I
> have to wonder if that speculative savings will outweigh the time I've
> invested in figuring out how to get it to work in the first place.
Except for the reason of fun or a sense of achievement or merely show off,
otherwise, a tool is merely a tool.
> else. For me, it's freelance writing. For another person I know, it's
> designing gardens; for another, it's ornithological research, etc. If
> your life and your career impel you to focus mainly on some other job
True. Presumably many mutter users are full-time network/system administrators
and they have endless hours on theirs hands to tinker with mutt and other
tools. I am tied up in other jobs and more time spent on mutt means less time
for them.
>you naturally
> want to spend most of your time on your final goal, whatever it might
> be.
agree.
So this poll is all about making mutt easier and it could be much better if
mutt can come with a configuration wizard and sensible default settings (for
example with gmail, send-hooks, attachments).
Let's vote for a change and take a look see where this change can take us.
--
regards
phyrster