On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 1:47 PM, James Cornell <sparcdr at sparcdr.com> wrote:
> Calum Benson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 12:18 -0700, Glenn Lagasse wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Except:
> >>
> >> a) Thunderbird is more widely available on other platforms (windows/OS
> >> X) and so I would say it's got a far greater following.
> >>
> >
> > ("More widely installed", perhaps, but Evolution works fine on both
> > Windows and OS X as well.)
> >
> > Cheeri,
> > Calum.
> >
> >
> I hardly call a bad port using X11/GTK+ on OSX a worthwhile client. I
> know of NO users that like how GIMP works on OSX, so why would kludge
> non-consistent, memory gulping poopy be better? Evolution is alien,
> non-native, not integrated, memory hungry, buggy, and inconsistent on
> OSX, and I'm sure it's only slightly less of stinky cheese bait on the
> Windows side, which at least has a native GTK+ port. Most the
> engineers, if not all specialize in X11 integration, it's not good
> enough to just port it and expect people to eat it up like it's
> candy-coated dogfood, it's still dogfood complete with alien probe and
> meteor to UNIX non-users.
I've heard the same said about all of the Mozilla foundation's apps on
Mac OS X as well.
So, it goes both ways ;)
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Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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