• 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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  • 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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