The ideal mail client?

[Mike Cloaked]

Patrick O'Callaghan-2 wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> 

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