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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: qtscape
From:       Kalle Dalheimer <kalle () dalheimer ! hh ! eunet ! de>
Date:       1998-04-09 16:41:00
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Jacek Konieczny wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Kalle Dalheimer wrote:
> 
> > Patrick D. Dowler wrote:
> > > On Wed, 08 Apr 1998, Kalle Dalheimer wrote:
> > > >Patrick D. Dowler wrote:
> > > >> Are there any plans to continue the work on this? Fix bugs? etc? 
> > > >> Turn it into Kscape?
> > > >
> [cut]
>  > 
> > > Is there someone in particular to report bugs to who wants to do this?
> > 
> > Reports about bugs in QtScape should go to ns@troll.no.
> > 
> > > 
> > > I never much liked the news reader in communicator anyway, but I don't
> > > know krn well enough to compare.
> > > 
> > > As for the mail reader, we have kmail already :-)
> > 
> > I don't consider QtScape a competition for kmail, krn and kfm, the
> > goals are too different. All have their place.
> 
> One of the things I don't like in Mozilla is that I can't use anything but
> Netscape for mailto: or news: links.
> An I think there should be possibility in QtScape to use external mailer,
> for example kmail.
> And don't you really think that Mozilla is good only as a browser. It's
> mail and news are not so much usable. This is my opinion.

I like the features of the mail and news client, but I agree that the
usability leaves much to be desired. My main points of criticism are:

- not completely usable via the keyboard
- too slow

Of course, once the source for the mailer is out, we can fix that...

Kalle

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