I gave a look at various places to see which kind of feedback the last release got. So far, not a single crasher has been reported, nor any outstanding bug. Cool. People wrote: How about [ghostscript-viewer] for Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.x? I still have two major wishes regarding cut-n-paste and reformatting. […] I’m not trying to nag…
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Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.12 and 1.0.5 Unleashed!!
Paul beat me to the blog announcement. But he forgot to link to the release notes :-) I’m quite happy about this release. I hope people will be too….
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libgnomeprint example
Given that I had a really hard time finding a simple example on how to use libgnomeprint and libgnomeprintui, here is a little hello-world type example for it. libgnomeprintexample-.tar.gz. (Yes, it’s quickly thrown together so there’s not even a version). Just type ./configure && make && ./libgnomeprintexample And let’s hope this will be useful…
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Printing in Claws
Sylpheed-Claws’ current printing system sucks hard. It works with a command, so if you want to get something nice-looking, you’ve got to elaborate something like « txt2html %s | html2ps | lpr ». Quite user-friendly. If you just use « lpr %s », you’ll get a nice sheet of paper straight out the eighties, with wrapping in the middle…
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Optimisations
The rule « when it’s really slow and shouldn’t be, the cause is really simple » verifies once again. Yesterday evening, I thought I’d fix Sylpheed-Claws’ « Select All » which was really slow. It was fast on a ~100 mails folder, took 11 seconds on a 5000 mails folder, and I killed it before it finished in a…
24/06/2005 Lire la suite...
