• Attentats à Londres, et autres

    Londres Il y a eu des attentats hier à Londres, avec un bilan de plus de 30 morts… J’hallucine! Qu’est-ce qu’ils croient résoudre par ce genre d’action ? En quoi cela peut-il aider leur cause ? Quelle cause, d’ailleurs ?… Aucune revendication claire n’a été faite ! Toutes mes pensées aux Londoniens. Je ne sais pas trop quoi…

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  • EU Parliament bins software patent bill

    From El Reg: The European Parliament has voted by a massive majority to reject the software patents directive, formally known as the Directive on the Patentability of Computer Implemented Inventions. The vote to scrap the bill was passed by a margin of 648 votes to 14, with 18 abstentions. Hooray! Thanks to the FFII and…

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  • Claws: idiotic bugs

    Paul pointed me to a few crashers in Sylpheed-Claws last night. Crashes happened when you unloaded some plugins, then used features these plugins extended. In the end the fixes were stupid one-liners about missing de-registration, like in mailmbox:  void plugin_done(void)  { +        folder_unregister_class(mailmbox_get_class());  } Leaving…

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  • sylpheed.org domain, again

    Oktay answered us, and he put the new DNS in place. So we now have control over the sylpheed.org domain. It is slowly going live as DNS servers notice the change… I hope everything will go fine! Probably we’ll be able to replace http://sylpheed-claws.sf.net/ by a redirection to the new http://claws.sylpheed.org/. If someone…

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  • Claws 1.9.12 feedback

    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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