On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 01:33:32 +0000 Robert McQueen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 01:48:41AM +0100, Julien Portalier wrote: > > Just did an apt-get -b source gaim, and it works really nicely, gaim > > has improved a lot since the 0.5 branch. , i just tried a chat with > > myself (you can add yourself as a contact ^^), and i was able to > > talk in japanese, french. Thank you very much for this package ! > > I'll try it as soon as tomorrow with some friends using icq on > > win32, to test the i18n features. > > That's cool, this guy has been working really hard on i18n, I'll pass > on your congratulations. However, ICQ is a big problem area at the > moment, because most clients don't really mark the charset they're > sending or anything, it's just co-incidence that people who talk in > the same language use the same charset (except people speaking Russian > find that Linux uses a different charset to Windows - problems and > ugly hacks required). Seeing as it's not possible to determine > character sets reliably given arbitrary data, we're a bit stuck.... Well, that's a general problem over the internet... charset conversions. Many applications tries their best for correcting those problems, but well, protocols & locales are not really taking care of it.. but well, gaim lokks like to have had a good i18n, but well, t only lokks like for the moment, didn't really tried it. > > Please note i'm only having the gaim package, not the gaim-gnome, it > > wasn't created. But i think it's because of the Tray Icon plugin. > > Didn't tried it, i haven't the system-tray-applet installed. Maybe a > > Replaces: gaim-gnome in the package could be interesting to > > automatically remove the old package (which is no longer needed.) > > Right, yeah. I forgot to make it clear... gaim-gnome is gone. It > offered three advantages but came with three evil disadvantages. The > GNOME URL handler was one advantage, and the fact we got session > management for free, were the libgnome benefits, and the panel applet > was the other. Well yes, but since i moved to gnome2 i didn't used it, and well, the applet didn't really missed me. > The URL handler is trivial. When GNOME 2.2 comes out there should be a > simple launch-url command we can test for and use. Session management > I've almost finished implementing using just libSM and a little code > from Havoc Pennington's GsmClient library. This should mean that when > you exit GNOME/KDE with Gaim running, it's started when you log back > in. And as for the applet, that has been replaced with a Tray Icon > plugin, which works for users of KDE, GNOME, or any WM that can dock a > system tray dockapp (docker IIRC). Hum, quite nice, the future is going to be quite nice ^^ Nice work you're doing ! > > Here is what you asked for : > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ find /usr/share/doc/gaim/ > > Looks OK, but is the /usr/share/doc/gaim-common dir totally removed? The /usr/share/doc/gaim-common is unexistant on my system. So i think everything is ok :) Julien
