Archive for September, 2007

One less dependancy in Claws Mail

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

Claws Mail’s Printing support is implemented, optionally, via libgnomeprint. Output looks rather good, but it has the drawback of requiring an extra library. It was still better than the old ‘lpr’ support :)
Anyway, we now had the possibility to remove this dependancy without removing the feature, as the GTK developers added a new API, GtkPrintOperation, [...]

Claws Mail’s CVS is down

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

I just realize that no-one blogged about it. As the mailing-lists are down too, here’s a bit of info: our CVS and mailing-lists provider, dotsrc.org, had an hardware problem on the server at the beginning of the week-end. They managed to reboot the server on Monday, but suffered from data loss on disk arrays, so [...]

Grinning

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

I know, it’s not nice to mock others. But GNOME’s 2.20 draft release notes just made me laugh a little bit :)

Notification icon - Trayicon since March 2003, plus the Notification plugin since March 2006
Missing attachment warning - Since Attachwarner, November 2006
“Magic Space Bar” - ! … Since the start of the project :)
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three point zero!

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

We reached 3.0 today :)
GPL3, tags, some little new features (like LDAP write-support for attributes), speed optimisations, lots of improvements for the Maemo platforms, important fixes for Windows, and much more…

Try it :)

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