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Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme
From: |
Dieter Wilhelm |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:55:53 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) |
Nick Roberts <address@hidden> 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
- Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme, Dieter Wilhelm, 2007/04/10
- Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme, Nick Roberts, 2007/04/10
- Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme, Dieter Wilhelm, 2007/04/11
- Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme, Richard Matthew Stallman, 2007/04/11
- Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme, Nick Roberts, 2007/04/11
- Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme, Richard Matthew Stallman, 2007/04/12
- Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme, Nick Roberts, 2007/04/12
- Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme,
Dieter Wilhelm <=
- Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme, Mathias Dahl, 2007/04/13
- Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme, Dieter Wilhelm, 2007/04/14
- Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme, Richard Stallman, 2007/04/14
- Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme, Dieter Wilhelm, 2007/04/15
- Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme, Richard Stallman, 2007/04/16
- Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme, Dieter Wilhelm, 2007/04/16
- Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme, Mathias Dahl, 2007/04/16
- Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme, Dieter Wilhelm, 2007/04/16
- Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme, Richard Stallman, 2007/04/17
- Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme, Mathias Dahl, 2007/04/18