On Jan 25, 2010, at 19:21, Olivier Scherler wrote: > Speaking of AppleScript, John has a very solid point. I am a programmer. It > means I can program, I even like it. It does not mean I only want to use > applications made for or only useable by programmers. I don't want to have to > program my way out of everything I do on a computer.
+1. I don't want my email to be one of the complicated things i have to deal with every day. Coincidently that explains why I use Mail at home (forced into Outlook at work). Letters' ultimate goal should be to match, enhance, and exceed Mail's feature set, without resorting to a dozen plugins and drifting into Plugin Hell. Complexity is not a vice. It can make apps difficult to use (I want to sack-punch whoever did the Preferences for Xcode), but it can also make for some spectacular apps (Safari isn't a "simple" application. Nor is iChat) Their purposes may be simple, but Safari is getting to have a helluva feature set; it has all but replaced Firefox in my occasional web development needs, and I don't have to have 5 plugins installed and updated and patched for it to work. To keep Caio from having an anerysm, it boils down to: nobody says you have to have EVERY FEATURE we have speculated about functional. But they do need to be THOUGHT about, and perhaps framing code put in place in the core to help advance those features later. But the "we'll make it a plugin" approach is folly. Plugins are for extending the application in minor ways, tweaking functionality if you will, they are not for implementing functionality. Ok, I'll shut up now. Promise. -nick _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
