Re: "CNET imagines the perfect e-mail client" - can Emacs be it?

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Per Abrahamsen wrote:

> Ken Raeburn <raeburn@raeburn.org> writes:
> 
> > http://home.cnet.com/software/0-8888-8-9161160-1.html
> 
> I did read it.  I do not think that what they want would make sense to
> implement in Emacs, they are clearly targetting a completely different
> market. 

I didn't read it, but in theory I don't see a conflict between eye candy
and user friendlyness and the amount of customizations possible in Gnus.  
In essence, I don't see why Gnus can't fit everyone.  Emacsen seem to have
GTK soon, and then Gnus could use all those colors and bitmaps and
multimedia wizards and transperancy and themes and ripple effects and
sound effects that everyone absolutely needs.

The problem with user friendlyness in applications generally is that they 
are implemented poorly.  Gnus can do better.  It can be user friendly AND 
expert friendly.

In practice there is the problem of finding someone who wants to implement
though..