[CS-FSLUG] QOTW: Mail Clients

[N. Thompson]

Timothy R. Butler wrote:

>>
>> 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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>     I have my doubts about that, although it is quite good. I'd love 
> to see KHTML merge with Gecko to unify the FOSS browsers. Gecko does 
> appear ready to pull far ahead and start eating Microsoft's lunch. Go 
> Firefox!

I hope they don't merge, Gecko is too heavy to merge with KHTML, the 
result would be more Gecko (what I don't want) and almost no KHTML (what 
I like). Besides that competing technology and software makes for better 
products in the end

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>> 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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>     Nah. If I was going to, I'd probably learn C# and GTK# first


Sounds like a plan, Gnome needed the adoption of C# to replace the C 
language which is more complicated, difficult and aged then is necessary 
for most desktop applications, one thing you will find though like with 
all young programming languages it will have a number of unexpected 
behaviours at first and will often change possibly even becomming 
incompatible with previous versions until the developers all know 
exactly what direction they want to go in.

> , but in actuality, I'll probably do that about the same time a 
> certain rather unsavory location drops below freezing.
>

The creativity in this list never ceases to amuse me, truly Tim you have 
a way with words :-) .

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