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From: snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe)
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Subject: Re: (more on) Pan
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:33:10 +0000
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rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

> On 17 Feb 2025 11:34:08 GMT, vallor wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:29:55 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
> > <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <vouhgj$10vfr$2@dont-email.me>:
> > 
> >> On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 08:40:02 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote:
> >> 
> >>> The people behind it can't even be bothered to fix the interface and
> >>> take it out of mid-1990s.
> >> 
> >> Form wins over function, eh? Never mind what the software *does*, what
> >> matters is how it *looks*.
> > 
> > (I had to look in the snubbery to see what software was being referred
> > to.)
> > 
> > Pan looks like a gtk+3 application.
> > 
> > That's because:  it's a gtk+3 application.
> 
> Funny thing about that...  It also looks a lot like Thunderbird, both the
> Linux and Windows versions, and quite a few other things. 

I used the original Pan 20+ years ago, I think it predates T'bird.  
Current Pan is a rewrite from the bottom up.

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