Re: Live CD Request for Enhancement: Smarter Mail Client
V Fri, 21 Nov 2014 18:59:03 +0100
Raphael Groner <projects.rg(a)smart.ms> napsáno:
My suggestion is to replace claws-mail with a smarter mail client:
either Balsa or Geary
First benefit is to save same space in the image. Second, Geary and
Balsa are both based at gtk3 which should be the better hope instead
of enforcing gtk2.
% LC_ALL=C yum info geary |grep Size
Size : 4.8 M
% LC_ALL=C yum info balsa |grep Size
Size : 7.3 M
% LC_ALL=C yum info claws-mail |grep Size
Size : 17 M
I assume it's not needed to ship all those great plugins for
claws-mail, and both geary as well balsa have great configuration
wizards open at the first start. Settings can be considered to be
vanishable in the sense of a live image, don't they?
Balsa is themable via gtk3 while Geary has a more modern design.
Both packages seem to be actively maintained. No idea about upstreams.
All in all, a live user should not be expected to see as many feature
as possible with an image that has a feature to limit in size.
What do you think?
Hi,
I'm talking from the perspective of a long time both Xfce and
claws-mail user. Back in the day (many years back) when I was switching
away from first thunderbird and then from evolution (still back in the
gnome 2 days) I was considering balsa as an option, claws mail ended up
the most user-friendly and feature complete for my use cases. Upon your
mail I decided to try them again. So I installed geary (I'm currently
on CentOS 7, and geary is available through nux-desktop), no balsa so
far, it's not in my repos. And my two cents (at least until I reboot to
fedora to try balsa) from the *quick* look are:
* Geary is definitely an *awful* choice for Xfce. Most of all it has
the completely gnome-shelly look which is out of place in
traditional desktop interface. Symbolic icons are also a no-no in
my opinion in Xfce. Also the interface is really unsuitable for
usage, IMHO, with high traffic mailing lists.
* Also in geary, I don't see anywhere any kind of setting of the
default mail servers -- do I use TLS, Do I use pop or imap? Can I
use POP for customly configured servers? Can I gpg-sign mail? Can I
reasonably use it for plain-text mails, i.e. non-HTML? Do I
download full messages or just headers on check-new mail? Can I set
it?
Regarding GTK2/3 in XFCE I strongly think we should still prefer GTK2
to GTK3, as the base desktop and most themes are still GTK2 based.
Regards,
Martin