Re: slrn 1.0 - adjusting option values on the fly

Sven Guckes <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.slrn.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* Trautmann Martin <[email protected]> [2007-07-20 12:32]:
> I feel that somehow slrn should find out on its own whether the
> current terminal supports utf8. Otherwise it should be switchable
> from within slrn, by a menu option named within the help file.

yes.. automatic detection is fine - but the user should *always*
be able to change the current option value via the command line!

> I'd vote against a '1.0' version as long as I'd have to become
> a linux expert just to find out how to configure it properly..

it's a long way...  my point: you cannot expect slrn
to become perfect in usability for just everyone.
after all, everybody would use it then, wouldn't they?
and we'd rather the dummies use something else, right? ;)

> as you see, I just use outlook in vmware instead
> of mutt and may switch to thunderbird for news
> just in order to avoid all this nuisance...

incidentally - could you spare us your
company's "signature"?  thankyou.
(the SF.net sigs are bad enough)

> However, an update of slrn is overdue...

a-men!

Sven

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