Re: Opera (was Re: Good news on claws-mail)

2014-10-30 Thread Bret Busby
On 30/10/2014, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 05:56:25PM +0100, Siard wrote: >> I just installed the x86_64 version in my new PC (amd64) with 'dpkg -i'. >> After trying to 'apt-get install' the 3 gstreamer*-dependencies, >> I followed apt's advice to try 'apt-get -f install'

Opera (was Re: Good news on claws-mail)

2014-10-30 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 05:56:25PM +0100, Siard wrote: > I just installed the x86_64 version in my new PC (amd64) with 'dpkg -i'. > After trying to 'apt-get install' the 3 gstreamer*-dependencies, > I followed apt's advice to try 'apt-get -f install' (without packages) > and voilà: all dependen

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-29 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30/10/14 07:52, Charlie wrote: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 17:56:25 +0100 Siard sent: > >> I followed apt's advice to try 'apt-get -f install' (without packages) >> and voilà: all dependencies were neatly solved. > > Thank you, I have to be honest, I was a bit wary about doing that, so > didn't try

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 30 oct 14, 07:52:37, Charlie wrote: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 17:56:25 +0100 Siard sent: > > > I followed apt's advice to try 'apt-get -f install' (without packages) > > and voilà: all dependencies were neatly solved. > > Thank you, I have to be honest, I was a bit wary about doing that, so >

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-29 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 17:56:25 +0100 Siard sent: > I followed apt's advice to try 'apt-get -f install' (without packages) > and voilà: all dependencies were neatly solved. Thank you, I have to be honest, I was a bit wary about doing that, so didn't try it. Charlie -- Registered Linux User

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-29 Thread Siard
Charlie: > Charles Kroeger: > > I suggest you try Opera beta. It's the best browser I've used in a > > long time. > > > > Version:26.0.1656.8 - Opera is up to date > > Update stream: beta > > System: Debian GNU/Linux jessie/sid (x86_64; XFCE) > > > > http://deb.opera.com > > But dep

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-29 Thread berenger . morel
Le 29.10.2014 06:38, Charlie a écrit : On Tue, 28 Oct 2014 13:47:26 -0400 Charles Kroeger sent: It's very maintained on linux. I suggest you try Opera beta. It's the best browser I've used in a long time. Version:26.0.1656.8 - Opera is up to date Update stream: beta System: Debian

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-28 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 28 Oct 2014 13:47:26 -0400 Charles Kroeger sent: > It's very maintained on linux. I suggest you try Opera beta. It's the > best browser I've used in a long time. > > Version: 26.0.1656.8 - Opera is up to date > Update stream:beta > System: Debian GNU/Linux jessie/sid (x

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-28 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 17:40:02 +0200 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > opera might be closed source and unmaintained on > linux, it's still my favorite. It's very maintained on linux. I suggest you try Opera beta. It's the best browser I've used in a long time. Version:26.0.1656.8 -

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-27 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 02:41:26PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > Le 23.10.2014 20:40, lee a écrit : > >berenger.mo...@neutralite.org writes: > > > >>The only problem is bash, here: it is unable to handle > >>multi-instances, so the histories are lost more or less randomly when

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-27 Thread lee
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org writes: >> Do you use tmux? > > No, I do not really see the interest of using it, I must admit it. One advantage is that you can detach from the session and even log out and come back later, and it also survives the X server going down. -- Again we must be afraid

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-24 Thread berenger . morel
Le 23.10.2014 20:40, lee a écrit : berenger.mo...@neutralite.org writes: The only problem is bash, here: it is unable to handle multi-instances, so the histories are lost more or less randomly when I close/spawn terminals and sessions. # append history rather than overwriting it shopt -s

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-23 Thread lee
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org writes: > The only problem is bash, here: it is unable to handle > multi-instances, so the histories are lost more or less randomly when > I close/spawn terminals and sessions. # append history rather than overwriting it shopt -s histappend Do you use tmux? --

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-23 Thread berenger . morel
Le 20.10.2014 17:29, Steve Litt a écrit : On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 03:37:56 +0200 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: And, finally, I consider myself as a DE user. My DE is built by myself around a terminal-emulator, a tiling window manager, Which one? i3 I use Openbox, which of course is

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-23 Thread berenger . morel
Le 21.10.2014 23:37, Steve Litt a écrit : On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 00:58:27 +0200 lee wrote: berenger.mo...@neutralite.org writes: > But my opinion is that, it's the accumulation of tools using > different slow languages, which will kill the computer's resources > (shell, python2, python3, php,

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 00:58:27 +0200 lee wrote: > berenger.mo...@neutralite.org writes: > > > But my opinion is that, it's the accumulation of tools using > > different slow languages, which will kill the computer's resources > > (shell, python2, python3, php, perl, basic, whatever). > > Perl isn

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-21 Thread lee
Steve Litt writes: > On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 14:20:25 +0200 > lee wrote: > > >> Since you're re-inventing the wheel: >> >> // sxnotify.c > [...] >> >> # aptitude install libsx-dev > > Very, very nice! I'm glad you like it :) There's also 'xmessage', and it requires you to click on a button, whi

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-21 Thread lee
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org writes: > But my opinion is that, it's the accumulation of tools using different > slow languages, which will kill the computer's resources (shell, > python2, python3, php, perl, basic, whatever). Perl isn't exactly slow, considering what it does. In any case, pick

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-20 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 21/10/14 05:42, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2014, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> The . Don't you think? > > This is off topic for -user. Please take it to private e-mail if you > must continue. > Agreed, and I regret it. My sincerest apologies to the list. Kind regards -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 20 oct 14, 11:29:09, Steve Litt wrote: > > An afficienado would argue with you that it's a DE only if the apps can > all interact. That's your definition, Wikipedia seems to disagree. > Me, I'd prefer all my apps mind their own business, but > hey, that's just me. How does that work with

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 20 oct 14, 18:46:11, Peter Nieman wrote: > On 20/10/14 13:53, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >On Du, 19 oct 14, 15:35:47, Peter Nieman wrote: > >>Anyway, evince *recommends* dbus-X11, but after removing dbus it no > >>longer worked. > > > >Could you please elaborate on "it no longer worked"? Do you

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-20 Thread Peter Nieman
On 20/10/14 13:53, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 19 oct 14, 15:35:47, Peter Nieman wrote: Anyway, evince *recommends* dbus-X11, but after removing dbus it no longer worked. Could you please elaborate on "it no longer worked"? Do you get any errors if you start it from a terminal? Yes, I got a

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-20 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 20/10/14 04:48, Peter Nieman wrote: > On 19/10/14 15:04, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> You hijacked the thread - and this is why that's considered bad form - >> it muddies the discussion. -8<--->8-- > > Yes, Dad. > > The consequences of your d

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-20 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 03:37:56 +0200 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > And, finally, I consider myself as a DE user. My DE is built by > myself around a terminal-emulator, a tiling window manager, Which one? I use Openbox, which of course isn't tiling. > and > several applications, Such

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 19 oct 14, 15:35:47, Peter Nieman wrote: > Anyway, evince *recommends* dbus-X11, but after removing dbus it no > longer worked. Could you please elaborate on "it no longer worked"? Do you get any errors if you start it from a terminal? Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQs

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-20 Thread berenger . morel
Le 19.10.2014 16:15, Steve Litt a écrit : On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 12:47:03 +0200 Peter Nieman wrote: By the way, I am a desktop user, using fvwm. But I don't want all my applications to "look and feel" the same, I don't want everything to interact with everything, and I want to control my comput

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-20 Thread berenger . morel
Le 19.10.2014 17:03, Steve Litt a écrit : Rapid Application Development, Army Surplus style, which of course makes me a pariah in the eyes of "real" programmers. Life's tough. Real programmers don't need RAD, they only use butterflies (1). About RAD and interpreted languages, I do not really

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-20 Thread berenger . morel
Le 18.10.2014 22:44, John Hasler a écrit : Steve Litt writes: The process, the questions it asked, and the automatic collection of my computer's configuration made submitting the bug trivial. *Every* project should have one of these. Unfortunately as soon as you mention email their ears clos

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-19 Thread Peter Nieman
On 19/10/14 15:04, Scott Ferguson wrote: You hijacked the thread - and this is why that's considered bad form - it muddies the discussion. Tangents deserve their own, appriately chosen Subject line, threads - then they get the attention they deserve instead of being passed over by reader on the b

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 14:20:25 +0200 lee wrote: > Since you're re-inventing the wheel: > > // sxnotify.c > // > // This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or > // modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as > // published by the Free Software Foundation, eith

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 12:47:03 +0200 Peter Nieman wrote: > By the way, I am a desktop user, using fvwm. But I don't want all my > applications to "look and feel" the same, I don't want everything to > interact with everything, and I want to control my computer instead > of being controlled by my

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 20/10/14 00:35, Peter Nieman wrote: > On 19/10/14 13:48, Brian wrote: >> On Sat 18 Oct 2014 at 17:29:58 +0200, Peter Nieman wrote: >> >>> On 18/10/14 13:49, Scott Ferguson wrote: Do you have an answer to your question? Wild guess - notifications? >>> >>> I don't know claws, but I

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-19 Thread Peter Nieman
On 19/10/14 13:48, Brian wrote: On Sat 18 Oct 2014 at 17:29:58 +0200, Peter Nieman wrote: On 18/10/14 13:49, Scott Ferguson wrote: Do you have an answer to your question? Wild guess - notifications? I don't know claws, but I know from Wheezy that many packages depend on dbus although dbus i

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-19 Thread lee
Steve Litt writes: > Those visual and audio hints are one of the few things that most > programs might need to write to. They need a predefined standard to > write to, and I guess dbus is the standard being used. If I were in > charge of standards, I might have used something simpler (like a fifo

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-19 Thread lee
Mark Carroll writes: > Peter Nieman writes: > >> As mentioned already in another posting, I think the best, if not the >> only solution for Debian would be to split the whole thing in two, one >> for desktop environment users and one for users who do not want a >> desktop environment. Package

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-19 Thread Mark Carroll
Peter Nieman writes: > As mentioned already in another posting, I think the best, if not the > only solution for Debian would be to split the whole thing in two, one > for desktop environment users and one for users who do not want a > desktop environment. Packages that only work in a desktop

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-19 Thread Brian
On Sat 18 Oct 2014 at 17:29:58 +0200, Peter Nieman wrote: > On 18/10/14 13:49, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >Do you have an answer to your question? > > > >Wild guess - notifications? > > I don't know claws, but I know from Wheezy that many packages depend > on dbus although dbus isn't necessary for d

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-19 Thread Peter Nieman
On 18/10/14 19:36, Marko Ranđelović wrote: Great, but that's Gentoo way, we should have made a Gentuish Debian, i.e. port certain portage features into APT, such as easily control build flgas. But then it's needed to keep record of not which packages a package depends on, but which parts of which

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 19/10/14 02:29, Peter Nieman wrote: > On 18/10/14 13:49, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 18/10/14 23:28, Peter Nieman wrote: >>> On 17/10/14 20:25, Brian wrote: Why it needs to be compiled without dbus is also unknown. >>> >>> You're asking the wrong question. The question you should ask >>>

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread John Hasler
Steve Litt writes: > The process, the questions it asked, and the automatic collection of > my computer's configuration made submitting the bug trivial. *Every* > project should have one of these. Unfortunately as soon as you mention email their ears close up. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 17:30:27 +0100 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > Le 18.10.2014 16:14, Brian a écrit : > > Which once again raises the main question; what does systemd have > > to do > > with this? The original post gives an unexplained solution to a > > non-existent problem. > > Db

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 19:19:26 +0200 Sven Hartge wrote: > berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > I guess that claws uses (lib)dbus to notify dbus-compliant > > softwares that there is a new mail. > > Also claws might get a signal from (for example) network-manager if > there is a connection

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 17:16:04 +0100 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Le 18.10.2014 16:29, Peter Nieman a écrit : > > As far as I am concerned, I don't have the time right now to learn > > the officially accepted procedures of filing bug reports in Debian > > Just run bugreport (or is it repo

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Rusi Mody
On Saturday, October 18, 2014 10:10:02 PM UTC+5:30, berenge...@neutralite.org wrote: > Le 18.10.2014 16:14, Brian a écrit : > > Which once again raises the main question; what does systemd have to > > do > > with this? The original post gives an unexplained solution to a > > non-existent problem.

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Marko Ranđelović
Great, but that's Gentoo way, we should have made a Gentuish Debian, i.e. port certain portage features into APT, such as easily control build flgas. But then it's needed to keep record of not which packages a package depends on, but which parts of which packages a package depends on, though I'm no

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Sven Hartge
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > I guess that claws uses (lib)dbus to notify dbus-compliant softwares > that there is a new mail. Also claws might get a signal from (for example) network-manager if there is a connection available to toggle its offline/online mode to avoid unnecessary trie

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread berenger . morel
Le 18.10.2014 16:14, Brian a écrit : Which once again raises the main question; what does systemd have to do with this? The original post gives an unexplained solution to a non-existent problem. Dbus is (a crap, but not only) a tool to allow applications to share informations with other app

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Martin Read
On 18/10/14 16:29, Peter Nieman wrote: And I don't understand "TIA", unless it's Spanish. "Thanks In Advance" Well, I thought there was a strong relationship between systemd and dbus. Various parts of the systemd suite, including the systemd init daemon, use dbus to present its control int

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread berenger . morel
Le 18.10.2014 16:29, Peter Nieman a écrit : As far as I am concerned, I don't have the time right now to learn the officially accepted procedures of filing bug reports in Debian Just run bugreport (or is it reportbug? I don't have a Debian currently, but I'm trying to fix that :p) . It'll ask

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Peter Nieman
On 18/10/14 13:49, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 18/10/14 23:28, Peter Nieman wrote: On 17/10/14 20:25, Brian wrote: Why it needs to be compiled without dbus is also unknown. You're asking the wrong question. The question you should ask yourself is: if claws-mail works perfectly well without dbus,

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Brian
On Sun 19 Oct 2014 at 00:05:08 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 19/10/14 00:29, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 14:24:16 +0100 > > Brian wrote: > > > >> On Sat 18 Oct 2014 at 14:28:26 +0200, Peter Nieman wrote: > >> > >>> On 17/10/14 20:25, Brian wrote: > Why > it ne

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread John Hasler
Reco writes: > This page tells otherwise: > https://packages.debian.org/jessie/claws-mail > OK, it's 'libdbus-1-3', not 'dbus' dependency, but libdbus-1-3 > recommends dbus. Then it isn't a dependency. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 19/10/14 00:29, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 14:24:16 +0100 > Brian wrote: > >> On Sat 18 Oct 2014 at 14:28:26 +0200, Peter Nieman wrote: >> >>> On 17/10/14 20:25, Brian wrote: Why it needs to be compiled without dbus is also unknown. >>> >>> You're asking the wrong qu

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 14:24:16 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Sat 18 Oct 2014 at 14:28:26 +0200, Peter Nieman wrote: > > > On 17/10/14 20:25, Brian wrote: > > >Why > > >it needs to be compiled without dbus is also unknown. > > > > You're asking the wrong question. The question you should ask > > y

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Brian
On Sat 18 Oct 2014 at 14:28:26 +0200, Peter Nieman wrote: > On 17/10/14 20:25, Brian wrote: > >Why > >it needs to be compiled without dbus is also unknown. > > You're asking the wrong question. The question you should ask > yourself is: if claws-mail works perfectly well without dbus, then > why

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 18/10/14 23:28, Peter Nieman wrote: > On 17/10/14 20:25, Brian wrote: >> Why >> it needs to be compiled without dbus is also unknown. > > You're asking the wrong question. The question you should ask yourself > is: if claws-mail works perfectly well without dbus, then why does > Debian ship a v

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Peter Nieman
On 17/10/14 20:25, Brian wrote: Why it needs to be compiled without dbus is also unknown. You're asking the wrong question. The question you should ask yourself is: if claws-mail works perfectly well without dbus, then why does Debian ship a version that depends on it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-17 Thread Brian
On Fri 17 Oct 2014 at 13:11:23 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > For those of you using Claws-Mail, you can keep it systemd-free into > the foreseeable future by disabling dbus, like this: > > ./configure --disable-dbus > > I've compiled Claws_Mail from source on Debian. It's fairly easy to do, > it ca

Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, For those of you using Claws-Mail, you can keep it systemd-free into the foreseeable future by disabling dbus, like this: ./configure --disable-dbus I've compiled Claws_Mail from source on Debian. It's fairly easy to do, it can exist in tandem with the existing Claws-Mail (obviously rena