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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE Beta Release Schedule v2
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-05-05 20:15:08
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On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 09:00:16PM +0100, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> #if David Faure
> > I like korn because it shows me
> > - 5 mailboxes (actually 4 are KDE mailing-lists) 
> > - the number of unread messages in each mailbox.
> > 
> > Last time I checked, kbiff only showed a two-state icon, so it doesn't
> > say how many, nor supported several mailboxes. But that was long long ago
> > so don't flame me if I'm wrong :/
> 
> You can show more than one mailbox with kbiff by running more than
> one copy, where different ones use different 'profiles'.
> 
> IMO this is a bit weird. There's no need to have more than one process.
I agree.

> It doesn't show number of messages either.
That could be a flag in kbiff. Icon or number.

> About korn: for some reason, it's using mimelib.
> 
> mimelib has a dodgy license, I think:
> 
> "Licensee may not use the Software to develop a program, whether
>  free or not, that is used in a commercially offered service."
> 
> This looks to me like it forbids its inclusion in Linux distributions,
> and is one reason why I wrote librmm. I'm not trying to push librmm
> here, just feeling nervous about mimelib. The author didn't respond
> to me when I wrote to him about it over a year ago.
Ok.

> Could korn be converted to use pop and news ioslaves ? What happened
> to these slaves ?
They live happily in kdebase/kioslave - as happy as a slave can be :/


Hmmm... for the use I make of korn I don't need that at all.
The mailboxes are local...

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