On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 10:20:42 +0200 Xavier Nodet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 17:09:26 +1000 (E. Australia Standard Time) > Mark Livingstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > http://www.newsreaders.com/gnksa/ > > I fully agree for a newsreader to aim for GNKSA. Thanks. My thoughts are that as we replace a lot of the underlying components of M, it is good to know what we are aiming for at the end. ie When we replace the composer, we need to realise it affects both email and news. Therefore we need to understand the end goal before we make a half baked / incorrect effort. > Two things, though: > > - M is not at all a decent newsreader as it is now. There are > several > problems that even hindered me to use it for more than a week. I don't either. I have lost count of how many newsreaders I have tried over the years. At the oment I am on 40tude Dialog but it is not completely wonderful either. > You may > want to have a look e.g. on thread 'Eating our own dog food' in > this > list, started on 15 Nov 2002. Thanks, I read it! I agree with what you said. I'm also more inclined towards your flatter folder / selection structure for display purposes regardless of what the underlying data representation is. > - I'm not even completely sure that we can come up with a good GUI > for > both a mailer and a newsreader. When I use a newsreader (I used > to use > XNews, now using slrn), it does not at all feel like a mailer. > Maybe > this is just a lack of proper analysis, but I feel that the > workflow > is really different... Anyway, I'm sure we should first have a > very > good/usable mailer, before coming back to the newsreader part. I agree but when we make a mail composer, we have to eave enough hooks that it can be made to do similar in News mode otherwise, we just end up at stage one again. Thanks, Dr. QA ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100006ave/direct;at.asp_061203_01/01 _______________________________________________ Mahogany-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mahogany-developers
