Hi,

On 2014-04-24 14:43:25, mark lewis wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:
  about: "FMail":

 WvV>> There are just 7 items in the main menu when fsetup is started. Is
 WvV>> that crowded? It's just a different way of doing menu's, you just
 WvV>> have to get used to it. It's more like Allfix's setup program I
 WvV>> suppose. When I'm ever going to rewrite fsetup, I will probably use
 WvV>> a more conventional approach.

 ml> funny thing here... i was using FMail on my main system before i switched
 ml> to FE... this was before JAM was introduced and at least a few years before
 ml> i was asked to join the FE beta team... when i switched, my fingers always
 ml> wanted to type "fsetup" so i created a bat file that i
still use today to
 ml> load FE's setup program ;) :) :)

 ml> something else to note about many setup programs... quite many of them are
 ml> fashioned after the FD/FE style... even allfix... i forget where the style
 ml> actually started but back in the day it was easily recognizable and
 ml> extremely easy for folks to jump between tools using the format and
 ml> layout... FMail is close but twisted askew just slightly...

 ml> you really should take a look at these other tools and see what they do ;)

I might once I find the time to rewrite the ui of fsetup. ;)

I'm not going to spend time re-doing the current menu structure. When I'll
rewrite I will use something that will at least work in both linux and
windows, like Qt.

Bye, Wilfred.


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