From: Wes Hardaker <wes@hardakers.net>
Subject: Re: Question regarding the new multiplaned x-face
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 13:19:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sd6664fx6c.fsf@wanderer.hardakers.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <microsoft-free.x4zo3gr8gs.fsf@slackware.mynet.pc> (Steve Youngs's message of "Tue, 15 Jan 2002 06:19:47 +1000")
>>>>> On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 06:19:47 +1000, Steve Youngs <youngs@xemacs.org> said:
WH> I'm assuming probably exmh is more popular than gnus. I think
WH> zmail might be more popular as well, and it also displays xfaces.
SY> OK, but what is it about these that makes them more popular than Gnus?
SY> Is it "ease of use"?
Yes.
SY> Do they have more/better features?
No. gnus certainly has just about every function under the sun :-)
(at least that's why I use it) exmh is very good and is "prettier".
IE, it's graphical and not based on a text based editor so it just
looks "pretty" in comparison (even though I'm not a tk-look-n-feel
fan). Speed is probably an issue, as gnus is generally slower (elisp
just isn't that fast).
SY> Is Gnus lacking in some respect?
SY> Is it just a marketing issue?
Yes, it runs under emacs and the majority of the world doesn't want to
run emacs as their operating system (I do, however, so...)
SY> Do we care?
Nope.
--
"Ninjas aren't dangerous. They're more afraid of you than you are of them."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-14 21:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-12 20:27 Torsten Hilbrich
2002-01-14 5:31 ` Wes Hardaker
2002-01-14 12:11 ` Steve Youngs
2002-01-14 18:23 ` Wes Hardaker
2002-01-14 20:19 ` Steve Youngs
2002-01-14 21:19 ` Wes Hardaker [this message]
2002-01-14 21:20 ` Russ Allbery
2002-01-15 2:53 ` Andrew J Cosgriff
2002-01-15 10:52 ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-01-25 16:12 ` Wes Hardaker
2002-01-19 22:08 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-20 14:18 ` Oystein Viggen
2002-01-20 15:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-21 2:01 ` Daniel Pittman
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