Re: [SM-DEVEL] Seriously Dated Interface

[Paul L. <pa...@sq...>]

>> You're welcome to use your vast experience to contribute a skin for
>> SquirrelMail 1.5.2 where a templating layer was added.
>
> I suspected that my email would be received in a negative spirit.
> That’s really not how it was intended.

Then you could work on your delivery.

> I haven’t taken any serious look into SquirrelMail or its templating
> capabilities. But I don’t really think “templating” is what the
> problem is.

Ah, so an educated opinion, then.

> Its more fundamental than that.
>
> I'm not looking for a cute new "skin". I can't be the only one who
> sees a significant functionally disparity between SquirrelMail and
> Gmail or Outlook.com?
>
> I suspect the response will be “/then use Gmail if I love it so much/”
> but that’s not really the point is it?  The question I am asking is
> does SM *intend* to compete in this space? If not then fine.

You speak as if SM is a company with resources to "compete" and take
guidance from you.  For my part, I've had various sub-projects that
probably achieved some of what you are looking for and could see them
continuing, but you also don't seem to be aware that there are also a
number of people who appreciate SM because it isn't bloated; it's fast
and lean.  Some people have expressed appreciation for the simple and
familiar interface, and even though I agree it's dated and not always
well thought-out, those people shouldn't be ignored either.

> But if
> so then what’s it doing to address the glaring gap?

What are *you* doing beside making your opinion known?  If that's all
you've got, opinion noted.

> This was intended as constructive critique.

I don't see much construction in it.

> Or we can just put our

"our"???

> heads in the sand and pretend everything is OK and that we can’t
> imagine why anyone wouldn’t want to use anything other than Alpine
> anyway (oh, and BTW, I *do* use Alpine too).

Good for you, now everyone knows how 1337 you are.

(I try not to perpetuate the poor way of interacting on FOSS mailing
lists, but it's hard not to do that to emails like yours.  So I'll
apologize but not take any of it back.)

-- 
Paul Lesniewski
SquirrelMail Team
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