From: Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
To: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
Cc: mathias.dahl@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:55:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <876481t7mu.fsf@debby.local.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17950.43941.498605.877229@farnswood.snap.net.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Fri\, 13 Apr 2007 09\:59\:01 +1200")
Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz> writes:
> > Maybe we should remove it, since Tumme seems to be a superior
> > tool for the same job.
>
> I don't think it does do the same job, but then I don't use either. It
> would be nice if someone who does use both could confirm if this was true
> or not before talking about removing it.
Sorry, I only used either three or four times. From these somewhat
shallow impressions I'd also conclude that tumme is the superior tool
and a superset of thumbs' abilities. I'm going to use tumme for image
viewing. But superiority is not the only point, I think.
The point for retaining thumbs is that one can't please everybody with
one approach. From a user's perspective I think offering choice
outstrips every other disadvantage concerning maintainability,
consistency, etc. There might be users who dislike tumme's name and
"unnecessary overhead" and ...
--
Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Darmstadt, Germany
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-13 0:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-10 21:04 Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme Dieter Wilhelm
2007-04-10 21:18 ` Nick Roberts
2007-04-11 6:44 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-04-11 19:46 ` Richard Matthew Stallman
2007-04-11 21:55 ` Nick Roberts
2007-04-12 17:43 ` Richard Matthew Stallman
2007-04-12 21:59 ` Nick Roberts
2007-04-13 0:55 ` Dieter Wilhelm [this message]
2007-04-13 9:01 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-04-14 10:55 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-04-14 15:55 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-15 20:00 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-04-16 15:38 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-16 18:50 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-04-16 18:36 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-04-16 18:58 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-04-18 2:02 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-18 12:02 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-04-19 1:07 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-04-19 15:11 ` Drew Adams
2007-04-19 2:38 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-19 9:10 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-04-19 9:30 ` David Kastrup
2007-04-19 12:46 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-04-19 12:55 ` David Kastrup
2007-04-19 13:37 ` Markus Triska
2007-04-19 13:43 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-04-20 14:52 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-20 15:47 ` Drew Adams
2007-04-20 15:53 ` David Kastrup
2007-04-20 16:03 ` Drew Adams
2007-04-22 0:47 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-22 2:04 ` Nick Roberts
2007-04-22 3:44 ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-22 7:34 ` Drew Adams
2007-04-22 8:19 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-04-22 10:53 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-04-22 11:11 ` David Kastrup
2007-04-22 13:08 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-04-22 13:15 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-04-22 14:02 ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-22 11:40 ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-04-22 12:31 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-04-22 15:12 ` David Kastrup
2007-04-22 16:05 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-04-19 15:24 ` Drew Adams
2007-04-19 20:41 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-04-19 16:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-19 20:43 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-04-20 14:52 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-13 15:19 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-14 11:46 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-04-13 15:19 ` Richard Stallman
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