On Sat, 28 Apr 2018 09:51:27 +0200 (CEST) Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de> wrote:
I guess it's time to extend Zawinski's Law with:
Every (mail-reading) program will expand until it can no longer read mail.
Oh, very good! Well played. I confess as I tried out every email client I could find in the Tumbleweed repos, and found them all wanting or lacking in some way, either relatively small or vast, that I told myself that I wasn't really at fault for relying on Gmail for my personal stuff. (I currently use Claws and it annoys me on a multiple-times-per-day basis.) Although the latest update to Gmail is the least annoying it's ever had, the webapp has *significantly* degraded since its launch. It used to me much more powerful; now it's easier, simpler, and that today is more important than genuine functionality. But saying that, and for all it frustrates me -- for example recently Google remove the feature whereby you could select some text and reply and it correctly quoted just that and then positioned the cursor correctly beneath it -- it's *still* better than basically any FOSS or freeware email client I have seen in a decade and a half. If the FOSS community, as some have claimed, is better at copying existing tools than innovating and creating new ones, then why there is no FOSS clone of Gmail Version 1 which can run against any IMAP server is a mystery to me. -- Liam Proven - Technical Writer, SUSE Linux s.r.o. Corso II, Křižíkova 148/34, 186-00 Praha 8 - Karlín, Czechia Email: lproven@suse.com - Office telephone: +420 284 241 084 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org