Are there [Sylpheed] binaries for OS-2006 available? Is development in progress?
Yesterday (I think it was), I got Sylpheed working in Scratchbox on Maemo 2.1, complete with Task Navigator integration. A 2006 OS alpha build is not far away, depending on how much time I get to package it up.
I also need to work out what I've patched differently to the 2005 OS package so I can release the patch too ;-)
I'm wary to give a timescale, but it's on the order of days...
This is great news. The only possible downside is that three-pane applications designed for desktops are not always very usable with a screen rez like the 770's.
I found the approach taken by the person who ported the Pan newsreader to maemo, where panes were replaced by tabs (coming into focus in a natural way), extremely interesting and effective. I think an email client would lend itself to that sort of treatment just as well.
Personally, my own settings had it in 2-panel mode, with messages opening in a new window. Once the guts of the program are fully Hildonised, more sensible default view options is on the TODO list.
Personally, my own settings had it in 2-panel mode, with messages opening in a new window. Once the guts of the program are fully Hildonised, more sensible default view options is on the TODO list.
Can't wait long enough for this!
Sylpheed seems to have good multilingual support. Do you know if it works well with ISO-8859-x character set encodings -- for both receiving and sending email. The problem with pine is that when run under Osso Xterm the display works in UTF-8 encoding... and pine can't map between UTF-8 and the ISO-8859-x encodings.
Well it's quite nice for an alpha !
As you said, it looks usable enough in two-pane mode (even more so when full screen mode is available).
Is there a way to "select all" messages for deletion ?
Thanks for the nice package,
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