Re: Balsa in Fedora Core

[Craig Routledge <webstuff craigroutledge com>]

On 07/05/2004 01:54:11 PM, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Without gpgme (and libgpg-error), there is no crypto in balsa, and also  
> in several other apps (sylpheed comes to my mind): gpgme serves as a  
> "glue layer" between gpg (and gpgsm if you ever want to have S/MIME  
> crypto) and the application. It would also be nice to have the GnuPG  
> frontend gpa in, but it again depends on gpgme/libgpg-error.

I spoke with one of the GPGME developers, who said that the API should be  
fairly stable as of 0.9 and they are not expecting any big changes before  
1.0.  So, I've dropped a note to that effect in Fedora bugzilla under the  
bug requesting GPGME.  They are aware that the Fedora Balsa and Sylpheed  
packages are waiting on this for their crypto support.  I'll see if they  
are ready to include it at this point in time.

Other than that, all I see at the moment is:

On exit balsa leaves behind a process preventing balsa from running again
 http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=125694

I've seen this three times before on FC2, so I thought I might try to track  
it down.  I've recompiled the Fedora package to get a non-stripped binary,  
but haven't got the problem to manifest itself yet.  I'll keep trying.

 and

balsa crashes while customizing toolbar
 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141090

Is this bug also present in HEAD?  If not, and if fixing it would be too  
much work I suppose it could just be listed as a known bug with a  
workaround of "edit the .gnome2/balsa file by hand".  I ran into this  
problem, but I'm not sure how many other people bother to re-arrange their  
toolbars.

I'm afraid the GTK/GNOME GUI API is something I have yet to ever look at.
I suppose I could try as long as people put the good china away.  :^)


Thanks for your feedback,
Craig