Re: Balsa and Rubrica cooperation

[Nicola <nicolafragale libero it>]

Hello Albrecht

Albrecht Dreß wrote:

> Hi Nicola!
>
> IMHO, your app looks very promising and might be a good replacement for
> the old address book.

Thanks, :)

> As you use xml, it might be a good idea to add this
> as additional address book format to balsa instead of using the vcard
> import/export (which should not be *that* difficult, right?).

I don't know how balsa works, but I think that adding xml support should not
be difficoult. I use libxml for read/write files.

>
> I must admit, though, that I have some problems to get it *really* working
> on my system (a Powermac running Yellowdog linux and a self-compiled gnome
> 2.2); e.g. I don't see anything in the left-hand "cards" window.

May be this dued to an incorrect configuration. Try to rigth click on card
window and choose the data columns you want to see.

> And the
> german xlation seems to be widely broken, as all national chars are
> missing (wrongly coded? I get *tons* of pango errors), so I always use the
> posix locale.
>

will fix this

>
> So please continue your work!!

sure
Ciao
Nicola