• iBook: dead.

    So, after the shower that my iBook got, it doesn’t boot anymore… Nothing happens at all when I press the power button (either on battery, either on A/C). I have to replace it, but as I lack funding to do so, I’ve sent a call for donations on the sylpheed-claws-users mailing list: Hi, there’s…

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  • Die bug, die!

    I just closed bug #777, which has the shortest life-span ever seen on our bugzilla: – introduced by a sync on Aug 3, 10:31. – reported on bugzilla on Aug 3, 23:23. – fixed on Aug 3, 23:40. :-)…

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  • gpgme-1.0, at least

    I worked a bit on Sylpheed-Claws plugins and gpgme support ! So, to make it short, SC now sports: gpgme-1.0 support a new pgpcore plugin, used by both pgpmime and pgpinline a plugin dependancy system, so that loading pgpmime loads pgpcore automatically, or spamassassin_gtk loads spamassassin. Removing a plugin also removes the ones that depend on…

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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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