From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dieter Wilhelm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:55:53 +0200 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <876481t7mu.fsf@debby.local.net> References: <87slb8szz9.fsf@debby.local.net> <17947.65334.841905.101671@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <17949.22877.645175.478069@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <17950.43941.498605.877229@farnswood.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1176425778 5699 80.91.229.12 (13 Apr 2007 00:56:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:56:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mathias.dahl@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nick Roberts Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 13 02:56:16 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HcA5H-0005q0-O6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:56:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HcA9U-00028e-Pl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:00:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HcA9S-00028N-8b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:00:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HcA9R-00028B-MD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:00:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HcA9R-000288-K0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:00:33 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.179]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HcA5C-00019A-MP; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:56:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [84.167.5.194] (helo=debby.local.net) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu0) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKwh2-1HcA593ee3-0005XN; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:56:08 +0200 Original-Received: from dieter by debby.local.net with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HcA4v-0000TB-SK; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:55:53 +0200 In-Reply-To: <17950.43941.498605.877229@farnswood.snap.net.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Fri\, 13 Apr 2007 09\:59\:01 +1200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+6PlIq9R4+iCj49Sz8vlGXBHr7Rohvgsod44y 75IL9M97Db2/AyaQaitrQfK+XrZBycwiSxQVB2TkbjW667m9K8 kUp0Nde3ot7CRlB8KWZozfP+/eStTNH X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:69360 Archived-At: Nick Roberts 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