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Pidgin 'Open Mail' bug

At the request of my brother, looked at Pidgin's mail notification dialog this evening. The Ubuntu package takes ages to build, unfortunately. The reported bug was that the 'Open Mail' button didn't work - looking at it, it's possible to select the mail you want to open on some services now, but by default nothing is selected. There's some code to desensitize the button in that case, but the initial state isn't set. My preferred patch would be to use GTK_SELECTION_BROWSE and some code to ensure that an email is always selected... I hacked together something that works for MSN, at least. It's short enough that it might not have too many serious bugs.

I'm still not a big fan of Pidgin's UI design choices, I suppose. Perhaps one day IM will be built into the desktop and I won't have to worry.

Posted: 31 May 2008 00:00 | Tags: Planet WUGLUG, Planet UWCS, pidgin | Comments (0)

IDE

Who needs eclipse?

Posted: 17 May 2008 00:00 | Tags: Planet WUGLUG, Planet UWCS, emacs | Comments (0)

Bank Holiday and stuff

The bank holiday formed a welcome break after a hard week at work writing and fixing a Linux kernel module. On Friday afternoon version 0.4.3.1-1 of f-spot was uploaded to Debian, and then yesterday a new version of postgresql-autodoc. We've found a release-critical bug in f-spot already, of course.

Most of the rest of my time was spent hacking on Angel, a project which we haven't formally announced yet. :) It still needs some refactoring before a public release is possible - there are a few bugs left to fix. Still, I'm hoping that we'll get there fairly soon.

<rant>
The fire alarms have regularly been going off at 2am in this house - when I came home today they had been disabled by the landlord. I've also had a sore throat, and at work Chris and Gabi have had another child, so I'm on my own for two weeks. I'm also forced to remember my German all day... and most of the code I write is woefully inelegant. And it's too sunny. Why can't it rain like last weekend?
</rant>

Still, apart from that, life's good.

Posted: 06 May 2008 00:00 | Tags: Planet WUGLUG, Planet UWCS, debian, angel, rant | Comments (0)