On Sunday 31 July 2011 22:00:57 Rudolf Sykora wrote: > I've been using a gmail account with the usual access via a web > browser for quite a while. > Sometimes I get little angry when using it, for various reasons, often > due to the firefox's slowness to render the page (scrolling a longer > thread is often pain for me). > I'd like to ask you. Do you use some client like e.g. mutt / heirloom > mailx / some plan9 client, and find its utility superior to a > web-based way? Do you e.g. use imap to connect to gmail and read mail? > I wonder if one can use such thin clients and not loose to much of > comfort / lucity / clarity / ease of use. > > What do you generally consider the 'sucklest' way of reading mail? > (except for not reading it...)
i'm using gmail's IMAP in cached (`disconneted') mode; operations are performed on local files. that's fast (low latencies). my (linux) mail client: kmail does threading and has comfy in-line search of title, author etc. somehow i always end up disabling threading thou. i assume firefox renders HTML pixel-by-pixel, which causes general slowness over network. some VNC servers have automatic scroll decetction heueristics and send scroll events rather than full redraws if client supports that, but that's a hack. networked X11 seems to work well with scrolling, but firefox's chrome (widgets) over networked X11 are still damn slow. -- dexen deVries > It's called trolling. It's been done since there were bangs in people's email addresses. thaumaturgy, on HN
