Kudos to IBM. This is bound to be a bit controvercial, but I believe that IBM is the most socially open of all the closed software houses.
Oh, for god's sake! Shit for brains! What is "socially open" exactly? Somewhere some IBM marketing intern is reading your post and laughing so hard he's got Evian up his nose.
Please deal with your cranio-rectal insertion issues somewhere else. (And read this and this while you're at it.)
> Of course, the Konqueror programmers may have
> decided to treat every window as a separate
> program instance, in which case no speed up
> would be observed.
I think this may be the case. Very infrequently, I'll crash Konqueror. If I have multiple windows open, only the one that hit the error crashes. The rest are fine.
> I think that instead of working on KDE3 and
> Gnome2.0, we should instead be trying to build
> bridges, and reunifying this fork which has
> been scarring the Linux community for so long.
> It is time to extend the olive branch, and
> heal these old wounds.
I think that friendly competetion between the two desktops is good. For one thing, it give users a choice. Secondly, it means the bar is continually being raised. The popular argument against Microsoft is that a monopoly stifles innovation. Why should the basic principle be any different for free software?
I agree that there's been a lot of grief in the past. But that shouldn't prevent partisans in both camps from simply growing up and getting along.
I'm pretty disappointed that Evolution and Aethera don't seem to have any provision for saving mail in a database.
It's nice to see the efforts being made on the front-end, but now that most of us have huge HDs and SQL, why should we be using MUAs that start crapping out with a few thousand messages per folder?
Item-level security. The ability to control view | edit access to items based upon category. This would allow merged calendars containing events of all categories to be viewed and edited by those with highest security -- but could restrict access to, say, the "news release" category for those with low security.
Item-level formatting. The ability to use variable text formatting in views and reports based on selectable characteristics of the item. For example, items with start times later than 5:00 PM or belonging to the "confidential" category might display/print in identifying colours.
Others may disagree, but I think you could do worse than to use Outlook as a starting point. The two points above are what I found most lacking in Outlook 98. (A certain degree of item-level formatting is available in Outlook's table views, but not in graphical views.)
As well, I'd like to see both nested Boolean and regex support for searching and filtering.
I spent a couple of years helping to support a custom Outlook calendar application and look forward to whatever you come up with. Good luck!
Primarily to be presented to the President of the United States, members of Congress, members of other governments, companies in industry, and universities to demonstrate support for human Mars missions.
Frankly, I find the "members of other governments" stuff unconvincing. I think there are good reasons for a manned Mars mission. One is that it could help us to start seeing ourselves as human beings -- citizens of a planet rather than citizens of nations.
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Oh, for god's sake! Shit for brains! What is "socially open" exactly? Somewhere some IBM marketing intern is reading your post and laughing so hard he's got Evian up his nose.
Please deal with your cranio-rectal insertion issues somewhere else. (And read this and this while you're at it.)
Prizes for turning in your customers? A "Fast Cook & Grill Combo and Travel Chair"?
I think I'm finally starting to understand the secret to Microsoft corporate culture: the complete and utter lack of any sense of irony.
Honestly, this is revolting...
Whoa, dude. Those old IBM hippies are up to some weird shit, huh...?
...and then imagine all the dust and crap piling up on the inside of your transparent case.
This is not a chicken-and-egg scenario... ;-)
> decided to treat every window as a separate
> program instance, in which case no speed up
> would be observed.
I think this may be the case. Very infrequently, I'll crash Konqueror. If I have multiple windows open, only the one that hit the error crashes. The rest are fine.
> Gnome2.0, we should instead be trying to build
> bridges, and reunifying this fork which has
> been scarring the Linux community for so long.
> It is time to extend the olive branch, and
> heal these old wounds.
I think that friendly competetion between the two desktops is good. For one thing, it give users a choice. Secondly, it means the bar is continually being raised. The popular argument against Microsoft is that a monopoly stifles innovation. Why should the basic principle be any different for free software?
I agree that there's been a lot of grief in the past. But that shouldn't prevent partisans in both camps from simply growing up and getting along.
"A Million Bucks, Mach 7.6, Straight Down"
Heh, heh...
It's nice to see the efforts being made on the front-end, but now that most of us have huge HDs and SQL, why should we be using MUAs that start crapping out with a few thousand messages per folder?
...NURF or NURV?
Item-level security. The ability to control view | edit access to items based upon category. This would allow merged calendars containing events of all categories to be viewed and edited by those with highest security -- but could restrict access to, say, the "news release" category for those with low security.
Item-level formatting. The ability to use variable text formatting in views and reports based on selectable characteristics of the item. For example, items with start times later than 5:00 PM or belonging to the "confidential" category might display/print in identifying colours.
Others may disagree, but I think you could do worse than to use Outlook as a starting point. The two points above are what I found most lacking in Outlook 98. (A certain degree of item-level formatting is available in Outlook's table views, but not in graphical views.)
As well, I'd like to see both nested Boolean and regex support for searching and filtering.
I spent a couple of years helping to support a custom Outlook calendar application and look forward to whatever you come up with. Good luck!
Heh, heh...
Why can't Mozilla just be a BROWSER ?
Honestly, all I want for Christmas is a standards-compliant browser. Please, please , make it happen soon...
Well, no more than 6,000-10,000 years, right?
Evidently they haven't imagined it. Their site is slashdotted already.