On Fri, 2024-08-16 at 13:53 +0800, Gregory Orange wrote:
Since this thread got off topic, I feel less guilty about straying with it...
On 16/8/24 04:15, melanie witt wrote:
On 8/15/24 03:57, smooney@redhat.com wrote: [...]
Firstly, gratitude for snipping.
Since we're talking about things that happen on mailing lists, why is it that many here have held firmly onto the good old standard for responding in threaded context instead of top-posting, but at the same time, quote the entire message?
for me this is my prefernce to keep responses in context. if you top post it make it much harder to have several peopel interact as there may be several sub disucssion happening in the same email at once. we have a https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/MailingListEtiquette document in that we document this in the replies sub section https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/MailingListEtiquette#Replies and use the interleave style https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style by default we do sometimes drop parts of the original mail if not relevent but not always
When I have many emails to go through, if I have to scroll past a heap of quoted text I am far less likely to spend the time to bother with it, unless it's a topic I really want to read - not great for general information gathering. That's key, because there are heaps of useful nuggets on a list like this one.
I actually prefer top-posting to this, because at least it is only the 'second' standard, rather than this third one.
well the documented standard that we expect peoole to use on the list is the interleave style in plain text. but ill admit i also dont follow all of the rules. i really hate the 72 character line wrapping so i dont follow that. i configure wrapping at 120 instead.
The only gripe I have about Thunderbird is the lack of dead simple automatic dark theme for the message reading window (the rest of the UI
True for me too - I use dark mode everywhere I can, all the time.
same, it really does help reduce eyestrain epically as monitors have gotten brighter.
does dark mode fine). I like to use light mode during the day and dark mode at night. I have tried DarkReader and it was OK but too clunky for
Same about DarkReader. I dropped the equivalent in Firefox too after it got clunky for me.
im still using it but have noticed the slow down. for me its still worth not having as much eye strain issues but it can take a while for some things to render.
me. For reading plain text I just installed Dark Plain Text which handles automatic dark mode for reading plain text and it looks good but obviously doesn't cover HTML.
Oh wow, you've got me another step closer to the solution. Thanks!
ya that i did not know about either. i have been putting of moving back to Thunderbird for quite a while but it might be worth considering. evolution has this habit of deferring work and trying ot update folders only when you click on them that mainly problematic for calendar invites as they dont actully show up in its calandar until you click on the invite.
Greg.