[Klug-general] web editing woes

[Karl Lattimer]

On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 09:59 +0000, frank attwood wrote:
> Well i've finally taken the plunge and installed a full linux desktop here 
> at work. I'm now running Mandriva 2005 with two screens and VMware with 
> Windows 2000 - to lessen the shock.
> Surprisingly I've not gone into a lack of Photoshop induced coma, although 
Photoshop ain't the issue, gimp does everything it does apart from layer
styles. Its easier to use imho and just as good. 

> it is on the VM for when only Photoshop will do.
> I even managed to got my Axim to synce to the VM - very useful
> 
> However the problems I do have would would like some advice on our
> 
> 1 - Which WYSIWYG web editor do i use. I've tryed NVU, Screem and Quanta and 
> they all suck compared to Dreamweaver. I'm currently building a site using 
> Mambo CMS and ,not being able to hand code, Dreamweaver is paying for itself 
> daily. None of the ones i've tryed seem to like PHP
> 
Bluefish is good, gphpedit and cssed may also be handy for you. Also
take your time to harass macromedia to produce a native linux port of
dreamweaver, I've sent a number of disapointed/abusive emails to them to
try and get the message across, I know that there are another 50 or so
of us that do that sort of thing regularly. 

> 2 - I've got Evolution hooked upto my exchange server fine. However when 
> ever i try to edit any of the shared calenders it locks up. Does anyone have 
> a solution for this?
I can't even seem to access (view) shared calendars on my exchange
server, if you can help me get this working then I can help you get the
lockup fixed.

> 
> 3 - Is there a way to pipe hotmail into Evolution or some other mail program 
> or is this really impossible?
> 

No! Hotmail provides pop IF you pay for it! You could always write
libcurl/xml parser that would redirect the html parsed emails into a pop
server but i think that breaks the MSN terms of service. If you wrote
that, there would be millions of people wanting a copy so GPL if you do
it!

> 4 - why on earth does my system tray panel insist on going wonky and putting 
> loads of space between the icons every so often so that I have to keep 
> scrolling it?

Send me a screen shot and i'll see if I can understand you a little
better.
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
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