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…
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Sylpheed-Claws’ image
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…
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Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.1 is available.
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….
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Windows networking woes
The Mingw32 environment is a great thing. It lets me develop an app for Windows on my Linux computers without even having to think about the platform differences – apart from directory separator and stuff like that. Well, most often. Looks like the Winsock2 API is really, really far off the POSIX way of doing…
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Software patents: process restarted. Yay!
Good news from slashdot today: the EU procedure on software patents has been restarted! This means it’ll be harder for the pro-patents lobby to push it down our throats (like, say, during a fisheries meeting). Here’s the GrokLaw story, and the FFII article (in french). Big thanks to everyone involved in this! And…
03/02/2005 Lire la suite...
