[geeks] New Mail Client

[Kevin R. Marshall]

I can't speak about the gtk2 version, but v.1.0.5 (last gtk1 version) is extremely fast.  Point in fact, it's the fastest GUI based MUA i've used to date.

On most of my machines it can be started in well under a second.  The whole app takes less than 20 megs on my linux box here at work.

/KRM

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:58:09 -0500
Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:
> 
> You reminded me to try it again, so here I am.
> 
> Personally, I find the gtk2 version to be faster and smoother.
> 
> It might be because gtk2 can use accelerated fonts and widgets.
> 
> Plus, the gtk1 version is butt ugly.  I can't seem to figure out how to
> fix that.  I might be missing some legacy package for the gtk1
> applications.
> 
> It's not just looks either: I found it interfered with usage.
> 
> Observations about sylpheed, version (claws) 2.5.4:
> 
> - sylpheed is most certainly not a lightweight program.  It is using
>   80MB on my system right now.  Smaller than Thunderbird, yes, but
>   hardly a light program.  I don't see how you guys ever used it
>   on small machines.