KDE 4.6.0 and nvidia drivers

[Duncan]

Jerry posted on Fri, 29 Apr 2011 09:08:11 -0400 as excerpted:

> On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:36:15 +0000 (UTC)
> Duncan <1i5t5.duncan at cox.net> articulated:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Is there something wrong with your MUA? I am not a fan of HTML mail in a
> mail forum either; however, all I need do is click on the text view
> option in claws-mail and all is well. Doesn't your MUA have an option to
> view the text version of a message?

Simple.  The client doesn't parse HTML and makes no distinction between 
HTML and plain text, which can be a good thing if the plain-text part is a 
dummy as it is with some (broken) senders.  It shows all plain-test parts 
and all html parts, as plain-text-only by deliberate policy, including 
security.  So I actually got the text displayed twice, but selected out of 
the part with the html to respond to, thus demonstrating the ugly mess it 
creates back to the person who created it.

> And why burden the OP, and others with this long drawn out legalese,
> which probably isn't even accurate anyway, when it was not pertinent to
> the OP's question?

Again it's simple enough.  It's my reply.  My reply style tends to include 
a lot of detail and background that other replies may not.  I've gotten 
many thanks over the years for explaining various aspects of problems that 
people never understood before.  Part of that explanation, where it 
touches on servantware, includes my own reasons for choosing only free 
alternatives.  They're certainly accurate in the context of being my own 
reasons, which is how I present them.  Others certainly make their own 
choices and are free to continue to do so, but I make it clear enough 
where I stand and why, whenever the topic comes up in a reply of mine.

Worded differently, if the matter touches on servantware, so does the 
reply, in no small part because in my opinion, no solution regarding 
servantware can be complete as long as that master/servant relationship 
(in the context of my sig) remains.  The user remains free to make their 
own choice, but IMO, any solution that includes servantware is at best a 
workaround for a servantware free solution, and that's exactly how I 
present it.

Of course, a reader can scan for the stuff they want if they wish, 
ignoring the rest.  But for those who really don't like it, any decent 
client has this function called ignore, aka the killfile.  Its entire 
purpose is to allow a user to ensure they don't see posts from someone or 
on some topic they'd prefer not to see (tho they might still appear in 
quotes in followups), for a period which may be forever, if they choose to 
make it so.  I'm quite aware that my style doesn't appeal to everyone, due 
either to verbosity, or to opinion delivered along with the proposed 
solution.  That's what killfiles are /for/, and I've no problem at all 
with people putting me in them, if they believe it's best for their peace 
of mind to do so.  True, they'll lose whatever else I might have said as 
well, but they'd lose it if I simply didn't reply, too, and so would all 
those who have found benefit from my replies over the years, so for their 
benefit, I might as well reply and let those who choose to killfile it, do 
just that.

-- 
Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman

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