Just discovered a ton of useful #Thunderbird features... BECAUSE I enabled the MENU BAR.

Go take your silly hamburger menus and EAT THEM. Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person. :P

#UnixGrump #ThisGenXerHas99ProblemsAndBrainDeadUItrendsAintOneOfThemSUCKAH

@RL_Dane

I just hate the tbird interface. I wish it was more amenable to theming and stuff. Or maybe it is and I just haven't figure it out :D

@stwhite

Have you tried Evolution?

Also, theming? In an email client? Umm... do you hydro-dip your toilet tank, too? :blobcatgoogly2:

@RL_Dane

TBH I probably need to check out the available email clients. My daily drivers are mostly Macs so I have what I consider to be a 'high bar' for tolerable mail clients (basically Mail.app and Outlook) lol.

@RL_Dane

Maybe KMail is the magic sauce in plasma :D

@stwhite

Man, KMail is a wee bit like Outlook (don't shoot me, KDE!) in that it can't quite make up its mind about what it is.

The process for setting up email in KMail isn't super intuitive, yet. It still needs some re-work and a lot of "15-minute" bug fixes/feature enhancements (fixes to things experienced in the first 15 minutes of using something, not fixes that take 15 minutes to do).

I love KDE apps, though. Hopefully KMail will get some re-work in the next few years.

@RL_Dane I just installed it and set it up for my gmail. We'll see.

A lot of my discontent comes from going from a 13" high res (26nn by 14nn or something on the 13" mbp ca 2014 to a 1920x1080 screen on the XPS. It's a much better screen than some others laying around here but it's not like it's a MBP screen.

@stwhite

You can get 4k laptops, but I don't really see the point.

I can count the number of OSes that handle HiDPI scaling well and consistently on a bloody stump, because no such animal exists.

I guess MacOS gets close, and Linux isn't too bad IFF you stick with only GUI apps from your DE.

@RL_Dane

I made the mistake of opting for a 4k Dell laptop a few years ago when my employer ran out of MBPs and there was a sixteen week wait.

I'm not sure what you dislike about the Mac screen handling. This laptop is an M1 Max with a 3456x2234 screen, which is just shy of 4k, and it's gorgeous; I've literally no complaints except that their default resolution is a bit large for this screen IMO :D.

The 2014 13" MBP also has a great screen and works fine under KDE Plasma - just (...)

@stwhite

IIRC, macOS doesn't have real resolution independence or fractional scaling, just 1x and 2x. This might have changed hence.

It's 2023, why don't we have native DisplayPostscript and true vector graphics for *all* interfaces and OSes???

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@RL_Dane
> macOS doesn't have real resolution independence
Apple were going to implement it in 10.5! But the idea got buried under a pile of useless junk and looks like they gave up on it completely in the end😩
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@m0xee

Aye, I remember reading John Siracusa's (Ars Technica) analysis of it.

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