the_shrubber
03-24-2002, 12:36 PM
Okay, so i'm too busy coding other things, but maybe somebody will be inspired :-).
How about we write a mutt-like emailer using Cocoa? Maybe some sort of front-end so that we reuse as much of their code as possible?
I know i know, sorry for wanting to have my cake and eat it too, but i've got a hazy vision of something that is both as customisable as the mutt emailer (yeah threads), even respecting the muttrc as much as possible, but yet trying hard to behave like a mac application otherwise.
I want a tool that i can use just like i would mutt on a unix box, except 1) it's pretty 2) lets you click on links 3) does subtle mac things that make macs feel consistent and nice. 4) goes "ting!" (or plays whatever system sound you choose) and changes its dock icon when you receive mail
I want the niceness from the mac and unix world. I want to have this beautiful tool that respects muttrc files... in fact, i want to be able to just log in to a linux box after years of using this tool, run mutt from the command line, and NOT feel crippled... maybe missing my Binng! and dock icon (but that's what's xbiff is for).
Anyone? Anyone? I'm sure there's hard things to think about, like what bits of muttrc we'll have to ignore, but seriously, ANYONE interested?
(In other words, i WOULD be using one of those gui emailers, except they all feel fat and annoying... can we make something that's powerful yet nice, friendly yet uninstrusive?)
(-S-)
P.S... and lest we lose our focus and accomplish nothing, i say that we don't try to be all nice and generic, gui mutt. If someone wants to abstract over our code so that making a SwingMutt, WinMutt, GtkMutt, QtMutt are trivial, fine, more power to them, but we... we're making a mac application)
How about we write a mutt-like emailer using Cocoa? Maybe some sort of front-end so that we reuse as much of their code as possible?
I know i know, sorry for wanting to have my cake and eat it too, but i've got a hazy vision of something that is both as customisable as the mutt emailer (yeah threads), even respecting the muttrc as much as possible, but yet trying hard to behave like a mac application otherwise.
I want a tool that i can use just like i would mutt on a unix box, except 1) it's pretty 2) lets you click on links 3) does subtle mac things that make macs feel consistent and nice. 4) goes "ting!" (or plays whatever system sound you choose) and changes its dock icon when you receive mail
I want the niceness from the mac and unix world. I want to have this beautiful tool that respects muttrc files... in fact, i want to be able to just log in to a linux box after years of using this tool, run mutt from the command line, and NOT feel crippled... maybe missing my Binng! and dock icon (but that's what's xbiff is for).
Anyone? Anyone? I'm sure there's hard things to think about, like what bits of muttrc we'll have to ignore, but seriously, ANYONE interested?
(In other words, i WOULD be using one of those gui emailers, except they all feel fat and annoying... can we make something that's powerful yet nice, friendly yet uninstrusive?)
(-S-)
P.S... and lest we lose our focus and accomplish nothing, i say that we don't try to be all nice and generic, gui mutt. If someone wants to abstract over our code so that making a SwingMutt, WinMutt, GtkMutt, QtMutt are trivial, fine, more power to them, but we... we're making a mac application)