[Klug-general] web editing woes

[frank attwood]

What pay for hotmail are you mad, it's a free service, oh no hang on it's a 
subsidary of Mr Gates incopratated :-)

Your about the Gimp it is cool and does nearlly everything (apart from CMYK 
and spot colours). It's more th case of learning it. I konw photoshop really 
well and can work really fast on it, so the gimp is a bit slow to start 
with.

Bluefish is no good to me, to much handcoding. Cssed however was a genius 
suggestion. It's extremely cool and should help make light work of the 
monterous mambo style sheets.

I'm away for work now for a week. When i get back i'll sort you out a screen 
shot and try to remember what i did to get evolution and exchange working.

dan

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