On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Caio Chassot <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's the deal. I prefer 3-column. I use mail as 3-pane because that's how > it ships. I don't die inside because of that. I hear there's a plugin or > something that'll make it 3-column. I don't even care to investigate. If you > really think the position of a pane is a life-or-death situation, maybe you > should fiercely focus on the death part.
As long as i can kill the preview pane for messages, I could give a damn. I don't think I'm alone on that one. > And maybe it does warrant some clarification. > > Are we talking about Mac power users or IMAP power users? Or what particular > mix of both? > > Genuine question. I want to hear from more people. >From Brent's original Blog Post: "an email client that actually meets the needs of developers and professionals who rely on email, folks who type for a living." You seem to be missing the "And Professionals Who Rely On Email." Which even in today's IT world, is pretty much every SysAdmin, Analyst, and Nerd on a payroll. Nowhere in that sentence is "Indie." Nowhere was this defined to be a "for programmers only" thing. It started off as the need for a Better Email Client. Not a Developer's Email Client. Brents "Vision Document" (which was a draft anyway and i would in no way take to be the Letters Constitution) significantly narrowed the focus by only mentioning Developers and Power Users (though the definition of power users we have proven is quite ambiguous and subjective). As far as the "lean" comments he makes in the Vision Draft, I'm curious what he means by "do less but do it better" Does Mail include a cornucopia of hidden features I'm not aware of? Did I miss a software update and it turned into a Groupware client? Mail does Email, in a variety of ways, and I still argue that it does its job reasonable well. And to back up a minute, WTF is this implication that Open Source software exists predominantly for use by programmers? Are you Insane? Firefox, Thunderbird, 7Zip, CoRD, Adium, VLC, MySQL, Apache, PHP, my god man, thousands of Projects are used by people who haven't written a stitch of C or Obj-C or whatever in their life. -nick -- Nick Peelman [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
