Early Gripes About Leopard
So I've listed my favorable first impressions about Leopard. Unfortunately Leopard isn't perfect, and there are a few things that really bug me.
.Mac seems to have taken a stronger role. By default the .Mac sync icon was stuck in my menu bar, even though .Mac was turned off. cmd-drag got rid of it. The problem? I still get .Mac errors about syncing my address book and things. I really could do without the random dialog.
Firefox menus. The bookmarks sub folders get more out of line as you go down. As in the little arrow points to empty space, and the box is below the line you've highlighted. This is likely more on Firefox's side, but it is kind of a strange thing to break. While I'm at it, Firefox sure didn't handle the upgrade well. Quicktime videos don't play with audio ...
Leaving Mutt Behind
For years I've been an avid Mutt user. I have a highly tweaked .muttrc with a lot of customizations (I'll post it soon, I swear). HTML mail gets dumped through lynx or w3c (I can't remember which). GPG and SMIME signing. Referencing additional files to allow easy migration between systems. Custom colors.
Then I got to work, and the amount of HTML mail I got made Mutt unattractive. Dumping through lynx or w3c works, but it is rarely readable. Delta and Southwest itineraries often were hard to follow. Messages that otherwise should be easy to read were line wrapped in odd ways, and just not practical. I figured with Outlook being the standard at HP I'd use something close so I could deal well with both formats. I picked Thunderbird. I've been really happy with it at work, it doesn't have great key-bindings, but ...
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