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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] UI abstraction proposal (partially only)
From:       Zack Rusin <zack () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-06-04 9:21:47
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On Wednesday 04 June 2003 10:33, Luis Pedro Coelho wrote:
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> Le Mercredi 4 Juin 2003 00:36, Ingo Klöcker a écrit :
> > > Well, I thought only about having an interface of choice when I
> > > start KMail - working from remote using the text UI, working
> > > locally using the GUI. I didn't think about many concurrent
> > > applications using the core simultaneously.
> >
> > But that's what the people actually want. They want to keep their
> > KMail running at their workstation all the time (because it fetches
> > their mail) and they want to be able to check their mail from a
> > remote computer via a text UI KMail.
>
> I am sorry if this sounds stupid, but isn't that just turning kmail
> into an IMAP server or similiar only with a different, non-standard,
> protocol?

That's just like asking why did we add the current DCOP interfaces if 
there are IMAP servers. They are completely unrelated.

Zack
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