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Dear Apple,
You have a very nice operating system.
That Mail.app tool is quite nifty. It syncs mail fast and
accurately, it's got decent filtering. But you seem to have
forgotten two very important things.
First -
There is no (obvious???) way to tell you not to sync certain
folders. I have several things in my IMAP directory that are
not Mail folders (like my procmail and fetchmail logs) as well
as folders that I really don't care to have synced to the
laptop. (There's one that gets at least 100 spam messages a
day -- I'd be happy to send it to you if you want. There's
another that is a superset of all the other folders.)
Second -
There is no decent keyboard navigation for common operations
like 'Go to next unread message'. I understand that if there
was a menu item, this is something I could fix myself. I know
that all Mac users are mouse-happy, but for things like email,
I *need* a keyboard. And I need it to be able to do most
operations. So much for Mail.app.
While I'm ragging on you, isn't this pretty?
$ defaults write com.apple.Terminal NSUserKeyEquivalents '{"Quit Terminal" = "@$Q";}'
That's what I ran to tell Terminal.app not to bind Apple-Q to
"Quit". It's now Shift-Apple-Q. Why do I need this? Well,
Meta-Q (or Option or Alt) is too close, and I kept killing my
terminals. (Which is _not_ fun.) User Interface standards are
quite nice, but I want an easy way to change them when they get in
my way.
Anyway, I'll go back to staring at the beautiful OpenGL
accelerated graphics now.
-R
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