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I’m leaving to Fosdem! Time to practice that awful english accent I have…
It also means I’ll be unreachable until tomorrow. (I’ll have my laptop at Fosdem, so will be able to read my mails).

I uploaded a snapshot of Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.1cvs15.5 here. I’ll probably soon stop doing it, as the next release should be gtk2.

After Christoph’s commit from Tuesday, labelled “change Privacy-API to C++”, I almost wanted to fork Claws, because the more time passed, the more I felt Sylpheed-Claws wasn’t progressing in the best (in my opinion at least) direction. After having discussed that with Paul, I brought up the subject on IRC. A very little flamewar ensued, [...]

I just uploaded a gtk2 snapshot of sylpheed-claws 1.0.1cvs7.1.
Changes since cvs1.3 include a contextual menu item on email addresses, sync with main, accentued chars fixes (wrapping, email address parsing), two crasher fixes, and a mail-mangling fix.

I have the strange impression that I spent way too much time on fixing charset-related problems on Sylpheed-Claws.
First the badly encoded mail headers with raw 8 bit in them, where all I can do to fix undisplayable (as utf-8, the gtk2 internal charset) strings is

guess the original encoding (actually, see if it can be [...]

Buried in Thorsten’s site, I found a nice Sylpheed-Claws logo which we haven’t adopted yet.
Update: There’s a vote up there to choose the icon people want the most.
It made me think we could try and make Sylpheed-Claws a bit more sexy with the help of this great work of Jesper Schultz. Like, actually use [...]

Once again, and for the last time I hope, no GTK2 version is officially available. I uploaded a gtk2 tarball of this release.
Please note that this is not an official gtk2 release, although it is stable.
Migration warnings:
As a few configuration files differ from the gtk1 version, the default configuration directory is .sylpheed-gtk2. You can [...]

The Mingw32 environment is a great thing. It lets me develop an app for Windows on my Linux computers without even having to think about the platform differences – apart from directory separator and stuff like that.
Well, most often. Looks like the Winsock2 API is really, really far off the POSIX way of doing things. [...]

Good news from slashdot today: the EU procedure on software patents has been restarted! This means it’ll be harder for the pro-patents lobby to push it down our throats (like, say, during a fisheries meeting). Here’s the GrokLaw story, and the FFII article (in french).
Big thanks to everyone involved in this! And let’s hope EU [...]

My best friend Yann, who runs Develog, a service company oriented towards free software and customer respect, just launched PCLinux, an online shop dedicated to selling configurable PCs, exempt from the so-called Windows tax. The machines come pre-installed with the distribution you choose.
Let’s hope this’ll work as Yann wishes, as he already put lots of [...]