On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 12:45:19 +0200 (Romance Daylight Time) Vadim
Zeitlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 11:01:06 +1000 (E. Australia Standard Time) Mark
> Livingstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> ML> Vadim, did you have any idea as to when you intended to work on
> ML> new Compose component?
> 
>  Do you mean the rich text one of the plain text one? For the
> latter, I'd like to have it a.s.a.p. after 0.65 release because the
> current one is just not usable. For the former, I don't think I have
> time to do it in the foreseeable future myself.

It's not _quite_ that bad.  I use it all the time myself.  It could be
better, but it does work with a few quirks which I've gotten used to.

> ML> Any idea as to how long it would take? Do you have
> ML> all the underlying wxWindows bits you would need?
> 
>  I'd like, of course, to have a rich text editor control in
> wxWindows itself. Unfortunately, although many people (really, a
> dozen or so) have started writing rich text widgets for wxWindows
> during the last 5 years.  None of them (except Karsten who wrote
> our viewer/composer) achieved anything at all. It's a hard task :-(

If Mahogany had a rich text editor, I'd probably turn it off or
finally bite the bullet and use an external editor.  I strongly favor
plain text in email.

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