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

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

2014-10-30 Thread Bret Busby
On 30/10/2014, Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org 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

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

2014-10-29 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 dependency hell.

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

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 didn't

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 it.

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

2014-10-28 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

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 of

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 I

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

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 l...@yagibdah.de 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,

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

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

2014-10-21 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

2014-10-21 Thread lee
Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com writes: On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 14:20:25 +0200 lee l...@yagibdah.de 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

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 00:58:27 +0200 lee l...@yagibdah.de 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).

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

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 19.10.2014 16:15, Steve Litt a écrit : On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 12:47:03 +0200 Peter Nieman gmane-a...@t-online.de 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

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 --

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 as?

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 decision to

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 an

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 get any

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 do

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 snipped. 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

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

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 doing the

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-19 Thread Mark Carroll
Peter Nieman gmane-a...@t-online.de 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

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-19 Thread lee
Mark Carroll m...@ixod.org writes: Peter Nieman gmane-a...@t-online.de 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

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-19 Thread lee
Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com 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

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

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 know from Wheezy that

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 12:47:03 +0200 Peter Nieman gmane-a...@t-online.de 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

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 14:20:25 +0200 lee l...@yagibdah.de 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

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

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,

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 version

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 does

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 14:24:16 +0100 Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk 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

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 a...@cityscape.co.uk 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

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

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 a...@cityscape.co.uk 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

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

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 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

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

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 tries

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

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. Dbus

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 reportbug?

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 19:19:26 +0200 Sven Hartge s...@svenhartge.de 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

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. Dbus is (a

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 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 yourself is: if

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

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 can