From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Aug 5 13: 4:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E69437B401 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:04:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail16.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.216]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CB0543E70 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:04:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 7014 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2002 20:04:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO branwen.sfo.geekhouse.net) ([66.93.128.72]) (envelope-sender ) by mail16.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 5 Aug 2002 20:04:50 -0000 Received: from branwen.sfo.geekhouse.net (jim@localhost.sfo.geekhouse.net [127.0.0.1]) by branwen.sfo.geekhouse.net (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g75K4oll097559; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:04:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from jim@localhost) by branwen.sfo.geekhouse.net (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g75K4oWR097554; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:04:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@FreeBSD.org) Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:04:49 -0700 From: Jim Mock To: Tom Rhodes Cc: blackend@FreeBSD.org, cjuniet@entreview.com, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/41106: FreeBSD Handbook lacks "Desktop Applications" chapter. Message-ID: <20020805200449.GF13858@branwen.sfo.geekhouse.net> Reply-To: jim@FreeBSD.org References: <20020804191139.GA67318@daemon.entreview.com> <20020805121707.B82287@abigail.blackend.org> <3D4E8A02.50402@pittgoth.com> <20020805194905.GC13858@branwen.sfo.geekhouse.net> <20020805155938.704848e8.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020805155938.704848e8.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 05 Aug 2002 at 15:59:38 -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote: > On Mon, 5 Aug 2002 12:49:05 -0700 Jim Mock wrote: > > On Mon, 05 Aug 2002 at 10:21:54 -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote: > > > Marc Fonvieille wrote: > > > >Perhaps one thing is missing: the mail applications: sylpheed, > > > >evolution etc... Nowadays people can't think about a computer > > > >without thinking about sending mails :) > > > > > > Using email clients (MUA's) will be its own chapter all togeather, > > > which is already a PR in which I've taken ;) If you wish to help > > > me with it, just let me know and I'll inform you about what needs > > > worked over ;) Thanks! > > > > It probably shouldn't be it's own chapter but a section of the > > "Electronic Mail" chapter. > > This sounds even better, have a section on mail clients and describe > some of the more common ones (mutt, pine, sylpheed) so that users can > get up and running with email fast. Originally, I was thinking about > a text based and a menu based section, which would describe mutt for > text based and sylpheed for menu. Any suggestions? > > Note: I really do not want to get in depth with many clients, it would > become to difficult to maintain. I'd pick 3-5 of the most commonly used of each (GUI and console) and stick with that. I.e., console -- mutt, pine, elm, mail. GUI -- sylpheed, evolution, xfmail, whatever. I think those are probably the most common and would make the section the easiest to maintain. - jim -- jim mock jim@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message