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Re: "Recommended email client"
@mediocregopher I understand this point of view. And I also believe that software should be able to reach finished state. But Claws Mail is advertised as fork of Sylpheed and it’s on GTK+3 while Sylpheed is still on GTK+2, so you know how it looks…
But yes. I think that GTK or Qt is bad choice for software with aspiration of ever being in finished state. Using it is recipe for constant chasing of moving target. You port your app to GTK 79 and GTK 83 is already released… Complete waste of effort, constant rewrite after rewrite while neglecting actual functionality of app, just to chase newest release of chosen toolkit.
Jun 02 · 5 weeks ago
Recommended email client — Thunderbird is getting on my nerves recently. It tries to be helpful when I’m composing a plain text email and in result it completely breaks my formatting. Update after update I need to fish for some hidden config to disable a yet-another feature which tries to be smarter than me. And now it started crashing… And crashed twice when I tried to write one email… In plain text… I don’t want email client which fails at managing emails but tries to be everything (IRC...
💬 Aelspire · 14 comments · 3 likes · May 28 · 6 weeks ago