• 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…

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  • sylpheed.org domain

    So, thanks to Darko, we’ll be getting control of the sylpheed.org domain. It’ll be hosted by my friend Yann on develog.com. I just finished transferring the webpages and databases… The rest (CVS, Mailing-lists, etc) will stay on sourceforge. So, soon enough, we’ll effectively switch servers. The only thing that’ll be visible is that http://claws.sylpheed.org/…

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