[CS-FSLUG] QOTW: Mail Clients

[N. Thompson]

Timothy R. Butler wrote:

>> KMail or Kontact since they are both the same e-mail client even if 
>> one has
>> more apps integrated, Its fast, light and everything in KDE is so well
>> integrated and professional looking. I like all the usual KDE apps, 
>> KMail,
>> Konqueror, KWrite, KOffice etc... its better then Gnome, its better then
>
>
>     A little flame bait? ;-)


What flame bait? I was serious ;-)

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>> There's a reason why apple is porting KHTML over to Mac OS X and why 
>> there are
>> others (not sure if they're apple or not) porting KOffice and 
>> KMail/Kontact
>> to Mac OS X, its because Qt is an excellend product and all the KDE
>> components are excellent.
>
>
>     It really doesn't have much to do with Qt... it mostly has to do 
> with the lightweight nature of KHTML (and more specifically, the bulky 
> nature of Mozilla back when Apple was picking a engine). Safari does 
> not use Qt at all. Instead, Apple wrote KWQ, which serves as a 
> replacement for Qt that ties KHTML into the native Apple system.
>
>     (Incidentally, KWQ, which is released under a free software 
> license, has been ported to GNOME/GTK now too.)


KHTML has been ported to GTK, Gecko has been ported to Qt, interestingly 
enough somehow here KDE and Gnome managed to almost swap rendering 
engines :-p , KHTML is so superior though that it'll never need 
replacing :-) .

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>>
>> Thats my $0.02 worth, as you can tell I really like KDE and Qt, so 
>> much so in
>> fact that I learned how to program with C++ and Qt specifically with 
>> writing
>> KDE programs as one of my goals and eventually getting involved in the
>> project when I get good enough at it. I doubt you'll be able to find 
>> anyone
>> who likes any other desktop environment as much as I like KDE.
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>
>
> I found one! Me! Me! Me! :-P
>
>     -Tim


I'll believe you when you learn C and the (awful) GTK toolkit ;-)
One look at the GTK interface for C or C++ depending on which one is 
worse and you'll never want anything other then KDE and Qt again :-) .

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