Karmic Spec: Thunderbird Vs. Claws (Michele Mor)

[Simon Steinbeiß]

Robert,

yes, that's a versioning bug with Claws. It's quite annoying.
Tbh I haven't taken the time yet to see whether there is a bugreport about it already, I
personally use the ppa from the claws-devs.
I have to say though that this happened for the first time in jaunty (I've been using
claws since approx feisty).

On a sidenote: I know that the thing with the icon themes is a bit annoying (I mean that
Claws doesn't use stock icons), but I would offer to do an iconset that suits Xubuntu's
default for Karmic.

Simon





On Fri, 15 May 2009 09:53:22 -0400
Robert Freeman-Day <presgas at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Simon,
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> I just tried Claws and some plugins from the repos and the version of
> Claws seems to be newer than the plugins built (Ubu 9.04).  Did you run
> into that during testing?  If this situation is common, unfortunately I
> don't think it should be considered as a default client.  Looks real
> nice so far though!
> 
> Robert
> 
> Simon Steinbeiß wrote:
> > Robert Freeman-Day wrote:
> >> I will say there is key setup and management for the enigmail plugin
> >> (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Specifications/Karmic/ThunderbirdVsClaws#Encryption).
> >> If you go to the OpenPGP menu, you should see an item called "Key
> >> Management" and I personally found it quite useful for dipping my toe
> >> into GPG.
> > 
> > True, thanks for pointing that out. I even realised that the plugin is in the universe
> > repositories. Maybe I'll update the comparison.
> > 
> >> That being said, you have convinced me to make another go of Claws.
> > 
> > Then I guess all the work was worth it :)
> > 
> > Michele Mor wrote:
> >> since this comparison was made in order to decide which application would be part of
> >> Karmic, I think you should have tried Thunderbird 3 (beta).
> > 
> > Well, to be honest I there's no consistent behaviour in Ubuntu as to when they
> > include a beta release. It's not yet in the Karmic repos and as far as I can see
> > there's not even a debian-package, only a binary one (which I tested). I just don't
> > think it's the same to test an early beta release from a binary than to test a
> > package that has already undergone some testing.
> > So in a way I think it would have been less fair to compare Thunderbird 3 beta2 with
> > Claws stable.
> > 
> > (Btw, what would be the significant changes from version 2 to 3 that you think are
> > really messing up the comparison?)
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Simon
> > 
> 
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