On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 18:59:03 +0100 Raphael Groner <[email protected]> wrote:
> My suggestion is to replace claws-mail with a smarter mail client: > either Balsa or Geary > First benefit is to save same space in the image. Second, Geary and > Balsa are both based at gtk3 which should be the better hope instead > of enforcing gtk2. > > % LC_ALL=C yum info geary |grep Size > Size : 4.8 M > % LC_ALL=C yum info balsa |grep Size > Size : 7.3 M > % LC_ALL=C yum info claws-mail |grep Size > Size : 17 M > > I assume it's not needed to ship all those great plugins for > claws-mail, and both geary as well balsa have great configuration > wizards open at the first start. Settings can be considered to be > vanishable in the sense of a live image, don't they? > Balsa is themable via gtk3 while Geary has a more modern design. > Both packages seem to be actively maintained. No idea about upstreams. > > All in all, a live user should not be expected to see as many feature > as possible with an image that has a feature to limit in size. > > What do you think? I'm probibly a bit biased, being a claws-mail user, but both balsa and geary seem a bit... primitive to me. I guess I could come up with a list of things they seem to be lacking, but not sure how useful that would be. IMHO, claws-mail is still the one to stick with for now. kevin
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