Previously Moshe Zadka wrote:
> www-browser: definitely, here a standard interface (give a URL on the command
> line) is useful. currently, urlview depends on an ugly hack
> to do that (listing browsers itself)
doc-central does the same thing.
> mail-reader: honestly, I fail to see a reason why this is sane.
> "less /var/mail/moshez" is as good a mail reader as any.
> what on earth would prompt someone to suggest a mail-reader
> is truly beyond me.
Mail notification programs what start a MUA when you click on them
for example.
> Should a mail-reader also be able to *send* mail? That would actually
> make it a useful virtual package, again with a minimum of interface
> (accept an address on the command line, e.g.)
The name mail-reader suggests it doesn't. Perhapt it would be useful
to introduce mail-user-agent, which is both a common name, unlike
mail-reader, and has a proper definition:
mail user agent
<messaging> (MUA) The program that allows the user to compose
and read {electronic mail} messages. The MUA provides the
interface between the user and the {Message Transfer Agent}.
Outgoing mail is eventually handed over to an MTA for delivery
while the incoming messages are picked up from where the MTA
left it (although MUA's running on single-user machines may
pick up mail using {POP}).
> Better: adding interfaces for those virtual packages which lack an interface,
> and supplying patches to support those interfaces, and throwing
> those which truly serve no purpose.
Definitely.
Wichert.
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