What the hell starts pulseaudio?!

Mario Lobo lobo at bsd.com.br
Thu Jul 15 17:07:40 UTC 2021


On Thu, Jul 15, 2021, 13:25 Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf at riseup.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Jul 2021 10:36:13 -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
> >Thanks for mentioning that. I did start using claws-mail, but after
> >some short time of using it I switched back to thunderbird, just
> >forgot what was the reason. I will need to revisit claws mail, I
> >figure.
>
> Advantage: GTK3 branch was official released a few days ago, I'm
> already using it for more than 6 month (on Linux). Not that I'm in
> favour of GTK3, it's just that GTK2 is discontinued.
>
> Disadvantage and most likely the reason for you to drop Claws: It's
> _not_ multi-threaded and incredible slow. While you wait that something
> incredible slow does finish, you can't do something else.
>

Another disadvantage is that claws-mail is now having serious problems to
authenticate to gmail IMAP, which never happened before.


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