The ideal mail client?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 10:47 +0930, Tim wrote:
> > For instance there's little reason not to use VideoLan (VLC) as the
> > standard media player in Linux....

Does anyone in the Real World actually think of themselves as using a
"media player"? Perhaps they consider playing video and playing music to
be two different things. Now there's a thought ...

> I find it even slower to get started than any of the alternatives, and
> a
> bit CPU heavy.  So that's quite a nuisance when you're file managing
> (e.g. double click on something in a list of other things, to work out
> what's what, and there's an awful lot of waiting involved).  RhythmBox
> is also quite heavy, with all that baggage of being a library of all
> your files, which is quite painful when my music collection is on the
> file server, accessed via NFS.  And Totem is a behemoth that doesn't
> let
> you do much (few codecs included, few remote ones ever found, etc.).

I use Amarok for music (and have a fairly serious dislike of its new
look, but that's beside the point). For "click-to-play" video I use
Dragon, which is simple, effective and above all fast. I reserve VLC for
the harder cases.

poc