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"It's my personal opinion that most people don't want to read manuals available, not that they do not excist. "

I think a lot of the problem is manuals are written by experts for non-experts. The expert forgets to mention things which are obvious to them.

This is the thunderbird page I came to for developing an extension:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/specs/extensions.html

Try to read it from an outsider perspective and see how bad this is. (Not just the broken links).

The XUL sites you gave are tangential, all I want is the text to the email message so I can parse it, yet I have to learn a generic XML GUI widget toolkit to do it?

Its areas like this that could use work and block takeup of open source projects.
Posted by: Nigel Johnstone   Posted on: 02/16/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Kernel panic  OhMyGosh | 02/16/04
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Rep has been engaged...  Mike Cox | 02/16/04
diversion  guido_z | 02/16/04
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Lack of leadership???  Mike Cox | 02/16/04
You call that leadership???  TtfnJohn | 02/16/04
Leadership challenged  guido_z | 02/16/04
you tell em!  ryusen | 02/17/04
Se habla open source?  Loverock Davidson | 02/16/04
Where do you make sense  OhMyGosh | 02/16/04
I think you misunderstood him  Michael Kelly | 02/16/04
I understand him quite well  OhMyGosh | 02/16/04
Definition  Martin Marvinski | 02/16/04
No, I don't think you do  Loverock Davidson | 02/16/04
Were we reading the same article?  Yagotta B. Kidding | 02/17/04
A good example of the problem of a monopoly.  DonnieBoy | 02/16/04
No it won't, but it's a good thing nevertheless  Heatlesssun | 02/16/04
jMS did not do it because there was no competition.  DonnieBoy | 02/16/04
Open source should fix the docs first  Nigel Johnstone | 02/16/04
not so difficult  guido_z | 02/16/04
Expert viewpoint  Nigel Johnstone | 02/16/04
documentation problems  guido_z | 02/16/04
Does not make mistakes??  Robert Carnegie | 02/16/04
Aah, the rub against StarOffice  FilledOut | 02/16/04
Sun does not have to make any money, it is enough to keep MS out  DonnieBoy | 02/16/04
I'm sure Sun's shareholders appreciate that  rapson | 02/16/04
Sun aint losin' nothin' either. And, they can sell servers and other stuff.  DonnieBoy | 02/16/04
Same thing  NoB$ | 02/16/04
money  guido_z | 02/16/04
MS shill tune sounding more like SCO every day.  NoB$ | 02/16/04
excel  guido_z | 02/17/04
Oh, geez  Harvey Birdman | 02/16/04
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You bring your standard of living down paying too much for MS crapware.  DonnieBoy | 02/16/04
Message has been deleted.  idnew2005@... | 02/16/04
We know  NoB$ | 02/16/04
ummmm  CobraA1 | 02/16/04

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