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|    Wilfred van Velzen to mark lewis    |
|    Re: FMail    |
|    24 Apr 14 22:48:11    |
      Hi,              On 2014-04-24 14:43:25, mark lewis wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:        about: "FMail":               WvV>> There are just 7 items in the main menu when fsetup is started. Is        WvV>> that crowded? It's just a different way of doing menu's, you just        WvV>> have to get used to it. It's more like Allfix's setup program I        WvV>> suppose. When I'm ever going to rewrite fsetup, I will probably use        WvV>> a more conventional approach.               ml> funny thing here... i was using FMail on my main system before i switched        ml> to FE... this was before JAM was introduced and at least a few years       before        ml> i was asked to join the FE beta team... when i switched, my fingers always        ml> wanted to type "fsetup" so i created a bat file that i still use today to        ml> load FE's setup program ;) :) :)               ml> something else to note about many setup programs... quite many of them are        ml> fashioned after the FD/FE style... even allfix... i forget where the style        ml> actually started but back in the day it was easily recognizable and        ml> extremely easy for folks to jump between tools using the format and        ml> layout... FMail is close but twisted askew just slightly...               ml> you really should take a look at these other tools and see what they do ;)              I might once I find the time to rewrite the ui of fsetup. ;)              I'm not going to spend time re-doing the current menu structure. When I'll       rewrite I will use something that will at least work in both linux and       windows, like Qt.              Bye, Wilfred.                     --- FMail-W32-1.68.1.61-B20140411        * Origin: Native IPv6 connectable node (2:280/464)    |
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