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Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com> writes:

> "Robin S. Socha" <robin@socha.net> writes:
> > I'd like to see some luser-proof clicky-clicky interface to fancy
> > split rules.
> 
> Take off the qualifying end clause and I'd be really interested: Some
> very general, very wide-ranging luser-proofing.

Part of the emacs/gnus experience is getting used to the awkward and
non-intuitive keyboard, mouse, window and widget behaviour.  To
attract clicky-clicky lusers I think more use of GTK, QT or Windows
widgets by emacs applications (Gnus) would be required, at least.

(Emacs 21 improves many of these issues, but it's far from fitting
into someone's usual desktop environment.  Just consider the scroll
bar behaviour for instance: Most widget packages keep the moveable
scrollbar button to a fixed size depending on buffer size, Emacs
resizes the scrollbar button according to some algorithm I've never
grasped the intuition of.)