Re: evolution

2009-11-16 Thread Peter da Silva
On 2009-11-16, at 04:51, Nicholas Clark wrote: Bear with me on this one. There are "only" 1024 lines: ... You've run out of file descriptors, and not noticed. How careless. Gnome. Just say Gno. I think Windowmaker is about the fanciest window manager I want to use, really, and it's already

evolution

2009-11-16 Thread Nicholas Clark
Bear with me on this one. There are "only" 1024 lines: evolution 6508 nclark0r CHR1,3 6570 /dev/null evolution 6508 nclark1w FIFO0,5 15528 pipe evolution 6508 nclark2w FIFO0,5 15528 pipe evolution 6508 nclark

Re: evolution

2009-06-02 Thread Peter da Silva
On 2009-06-02, at 07:47, Nicholas Clark wrote: SYNOPSIS evolution [OPTIONS] [MAILTO] DESCRIPTION This manual page briefly introduces the evolution command. Evolution is a graphical groupware suite, a single application for reading and sending e-mail and for

evolution

2009-06-02 Thread Nicholas Clark
SYNOPSIS evolution [OPTIONS] [MAILTO] DESCRIPTION This manual page briefly introduces the evolution command. Evolution is a graphical groupware suite, a single application for reading and sending e-mail and for managing calendars, address books, notes, to-do

Re: Evolution

2008-09-16 Thread Rebecca Breu
pe...@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) wrote: > > I had the pleasure of seeing a Windows NT 3.5 box with two monitors > > attached. Displayed was an alert at the center of the *desktop*, > > split evenly between the two screens. > > Unfortunately, that behavior has not changed since then, nor is

Re: Evolution

2008-09-12 Thread Yoz Grahame
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 1:03 AM, Peter da Silva wrote: > On 2008-09-03, at 02:39, Nicholas Clark wrote: >> >> Dear Evolution [...] why do you break this workflow horribly by deciding >> to force the first >> app to drop its selection as soon as I touch a key? > >

Re: Evolution

2008-09-11 Thread Peter da Silva
> I had the pleasure of seeing a Windows NT 3.5 box with two monitors > attached. Displayed was an alert at the center of the *desktop*, > split evenly between the two screens. Unfortunately, that behavior has not changed since then, nor is it restricted to Windows.

Re: Evolution

2008-09-11 Thread Joshua Juran
On Sep 11, 2008, at 2:02 PM, Peter da Silva wrote: Emphasis on "think windows works". I havent found any Linux apps that work the way Windows _actually_ works. Indeed. Of course MS seems unable to remember how Windows worked, when it worked. I miss Windows NT 3.51, that was the last shippi

Re: Evolution

2008-09-11 Thread Peter da Silva
> Emphasis on "think windows works". I havent found any Linux apps that > work the way Windows _actually_ works. Indeed. > Of course MS seems unable to remember how Windows worked, > when it worked. I miss Windows NT 3.51, that was the last shipping version that actually followed a consistent us

Re: Evolution

2008-09-11 Thread demerphq
2008/9/3 Peter da Silva : > On 2008-09-03, at 02:39, Nicholas Clark wrote: >> >> Dear Evolution [...] why do you break this workflow horribly by deciding >> to force the first >> app to drop its selection as soon as I touch a key? > > Because it's written by t

Re: Evolution

2008-09-03 Thread David Mackintosh
that sentence. "Windows works". :-) > If they think that that holds, they are most surely deluded on a quest to > emulate same. Oh I don't know, by forcing a counter-intuitive, inconsistant, overly complex workflow in an application that randomly loses data, dies, or oth

Re: Evolution

2008-09-03 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 03:03:59AM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote: > On 2008-09-03, at 02:39, Nicholas Clark wrote: > >Dear Evolution [...] why do you break this workflow horribly by > >deciding to force the first > >app to drop its selection as soon as I touch a key? > &

Re: Evolution

2008-09-03 Thread Peter da Silva
On 2008-09-03, at 02:39, Nicholas Clark wrote: Dear Evolution [...] why do you break this workflow horribly by deciding to force the first app to drop its selection as soon as I touch a key? Because it's written by the great minds of the new age of Linux who think that the way to wi

Evolution

2008-09-03 Thread Nicholas Clark
Dear Evolution, So, every other X app I've tried works together as follows I have a selection highlighted in the first app. I swap to the second app I do some typing to make the place ready for the paste I paste WIN. And the second app will only force the first app to drop the selection

The theory of Evolution

2007-10-08 Thread Christian Tellefsen
So, I accidentally drag the current folder from the folder list over to the message list. I'd expect some nice little notice, like "Moving a folder to itself is just retarded. PEBKAC. Please click OK to continue. HAND." Buuut, what happens? Evolution faithfully duplicates every