On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 07:03:40PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > >anyway, some useful features would be tabs, clickable urls and proper > > It's been configurable for "clickable urls", for highlighting for a few > years. > i suppose you mean the multi-click options. so let's see. to use it in a way even remotely resembling just clicking urls in emails (like it would do in any graphical mail reader), i have to: 1) find out that i can do that at all. the man page doesn't contain the term "URL" once. 2) write a regexp matching urls 3) have some process which leads from a selection to opening a browser. klipper to the rescue! yay! even more regexps! or maybe a global shortcut with khotkeys to pop up a new empty browser window i could paste the url into? i can't decide - both options are *so* appealing ...
arguably, somewhere between 0) and 1), you lost that "user friendliness" idea frank was mentioning ... ;) > Spawning off a web-brower only seems like a good idea until you > see it in action. > right. that's why all graphical muas lack that feature ... ;) as far as i'm concerned, it would be sufficient if url hovering and clicking would work only when ctrl is held down. oh, wait - that already pops up a menu which does its best to induce rsi by requiring me to hold down the mouse button while i navigate it. next idea then ... > >config dialogs (imagine - most people don't like reading man pages). > > most of gnome's users are subliterate, agreed. > i'm sure that to switch gears in your car/bike you always lean down and operate them directly - after all, appropriate controls anywhere near the console are clearly meant for illiterates. _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
