Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-04 Thread Eric S. Johansson
om my Virgin Mobile Android-Powered Device Richard wrote: >On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 08:18:37AM -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > >> >> What I'm proposing is fairly radical and in order for it to become >> part of a bigger system, we would need to prove the concept. Proving

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-04 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On 10/3/2013 6:49 PM, Will Fiveash wrote: That is unfortunate for sure. Isn't Accessibility a general issue for many disabled Unix/Linux users? The reason I ask is to pin down whether it's mutt that needs Accessibility improvements or is it the platform that mutt runs on. Accessibility is an

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-03 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On 10/3/2013 3:34 PM, Will Fiveash wrote: My concern is that mutt works very well for me in its current state. If the process of separating mutt as you describe has a regressive impact on the current text based UI I would be very unhappy. understood. I do not want to make you unhappy. Isn'

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-03 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On 10/3/2013 8:59 AM, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: however, the unix philosophy (at least as actually lived by its strict adherents) *totally* fails the requirements of modern end-user computing: the unix philosophy, like windows also fails the need of the disabled people (like me). OTOH, MH wa

Re: gmutt

2012-07-21 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On 7/21/2012 3:44 PM, Fredrik Gustafsson wrote: Althought there's no common API that's shared between "all" application, you just described something similair to the MVC[1] concept that's a design pattern for software. Computer scientists in my hometown love it, engineers in my hometown don't...

Re: gmutt

2012-07-21 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On 7/21/2012 1:22 PM, Richard wrote: I do not think it would be possible to take just the GUI of either of those and add it to mutt. My ideal xmutt would be much lighter, my feature list is as * mouse * font support, text drawing directly in X or pango might be much simpler than UTF over curses

Re: accessibility question

2012-07-08 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On 7/8/2012 4:24 AM, Rado Q wrote: Moin moin, =- Eric S. Johansson wrote on Sun 8.Jul'12 at 3:23:11 -0400 -= It would be super superb if I could use some form of client-side editing for sieve filtering but, nonessential. Not supported yet, and probably never, since there are other/b

accessibility question

2012-07-08 Thread Eric S. Johansson
now I'm going to ask about some things and propose solutions that may seem totally off-the-wall but they come from the deep need as a disabled person. So, please humor me and ask for clarification. Thanks in advance I need an e-mail client. Thunderbird is going away and support for accessibilit