colin@colino.net

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…

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…

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….