GNOME and the way forward

GNOME and the way forward

Posted Aug 18, 2005 13:11 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: GNOME and the way forward by whiprush
Parent article: GNOME and the way forward

If you care about how your text editor works and use any but its very simplest features, you probably want consistency in editor behaviour. (You know: consistency? Supposed to be a *good* idea in UI design?)

If I send a mail in Evolution but do all my other editing in vim or Emacs, I'm currently being unnecessarily forced to use an inconsistent (and, IMHO, grotesquely feature-poor) editor for *only some* things.

*That* is why every other program on the face of the Unix earth supports $EDITOR and $VISUAL. (I fail to see why reading the values of two environment variables would confuse newbies, either. They're invisible if you don't know they're there.)

(Well, except for Emacs apps, and they're somewhat special, running as they do *inside* an editor.)

What you're saying is that if you care about your user interface or care about the job you spend most of your time doing when interacting with a mail program (i.e., writing mail), then you're not in the target audience for GNOME. Fine, but this, it seems to me, removes every reason to ever use GNOME email programs in the first place. (Why would you use an easy-to-use user interface's email program if you don't care about ease of use or writing email?)

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