[balsa/gtk3] Update README
- From: Peter Bloomfield <PeterB src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [balsa/gtk3] Update README
- Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 17:53:38 +0000 (UTC)
commit b94e7ff3d63b8b5081f25f4d64a1a92e3aab7367
Author: Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield bellsouth net>
Date: Sat Jul 20 13:53:17 2013 -0400
Update README
ChangeLog | 4 ++++
README | 57 +++++++++++++++++----------------------------------------
2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ff5d9d8..d70bb29 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
2013-07-20 Peter Bloomfield
+ * README: minor updates.
+
+2013-07-20 Peter Bloomfield
+
Install and use a directory for GtkBuilder *.ui files
* ui/Makefile.am: new file.
diff --git a/README b/README
index 1418b43..a972fee 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-Balsa E-Mail Client 2.0.x
+Balsa E-Mail Client 2.5.x
=========================
See ChangeLog for the list of the recent changes and NEWS for highlights.
-Copyright (C) 1997-2002 Stuart Parmenter and others
+Copyright (C) 1997-2013 Stuart Parmenter and others
See 'COPYING' for licence information. Please note linking against
-OpenSSL libraries is explicitely allowed.
+OpenSSL libraries is explicitly allowed.
See 'AUTHORS' for a list of contributors
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Authors:
Website:
-------
- http://balsa.gnome.org/
+ http://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/
Description:
@@ -33,11 +33,6 @@ Configuration:
should run './configure --help' to get an idea of them. More
complete descriptions are here.
---enable-all
- Will turn on some features that are less than stable,
-or unfinsished, such as filtering and spell-checking. This
-is really use-at-your-own-risk.
-
--disable-more-warnings
Balsa by default is very sensitive to compilation warnings
which often mean simply programming or configuration errors. If you
@@ -89,15 +84,7 @@ Libraries:
---------
Balsa uses libESMTP library available at
http://www.stafford.uklinux.net/libesmtp/
-The current version is available at
-http://www.stafford.uklinux.net/libesmtp/libesmtp-1.0.3r1.tar.bz2
-
-You can grab {i386,src}.rpm that has this option enabled from
-ftp://ftp.chbm.nu/pub/ (built on RH 6.2) or from
-http://balsa.gnome.org/libesmtp-1.0.3r1-1.i386.rpm
-http://balsa.gnome.org/libesmtp-devel-1.0.3r1-1.i386.rpm
-http://balsa.gnome.org/libesmtp-1.0.3r1-1.src.rpm
-
+
Balsa also needs the aspell spell checking libraries.
Make sure you have libtool installed (if you get some error
@@ -107,18 +94,18 @@ libtdl is missing it means you need to install just that package).
Website:
-------
- Balsa CVS source comes with the Balsa website in the
+ Balsa source comes with the Balsa website in the
directory for balsa/website/. Read balsa/website/README and
balsa/website/INSTALL for more information. If you retrieved
this source as a tarball or RPM or deb, this directory
-probably won't exist. To get it, you need to go to ....
+may not exist. To get it, you need to go to ....
-Balsa CVS:
+Balsa GIT:
---------
- Balsa is hosted on the Gnome CVS servers. To get
-the latest source, get the module 'balsa' from the CVS
-root ':pserver:anonymous anoncvs gnome org:/cvs/gnome'.
+ Balsa is hosted on the Gnome git servers. To get
+the latest source, get the module 'balsa' from
+https://wiki.gnome.org/Git/Developers
Specifying the SMTP Server:
--------------------------
@@ -174,15 +161,14 @@ TLS extension in SMTP mail submission:
Help System:
-----------
In order to compile the help files, you need to have the
-GNOME DocBook documentation system. Very good documentation
-can be found at: http://www.gnome.org/gdp/gdp-handbook/gettingstarted.html
+Mallard documentation system. Very good documentation
+can be found at: http://projectmallard.org/
Balsa as mailto protocol handler:
---------------------------------
- Balsa can be used as mailto protocol handler. You have to edit
-the GNOME URL handlers and add mailto protocol with command
-balsa -m "%s".
+ Balsa can be used as mailto protocol handler; by default, a
+ desktop file that declares this capability is installed.
Mailbox locking:
---------------
@@ -229,8 +215,8 @@ filename=/path/to/your/browser
Reporting Bugs:
--------------
- See http://balsa.gnome.org/bugs.html for instructions. Do not
-report bugs with GtkHTML - it is quite unstable. Patches are welcome.
+ See http://balsa.gnome.org/bugs.html for instructions.
+ Patches are welcome.
@@ -242,12 +228,3 @@ Known issues:
Verify that balsa can create dot file in the mailbox directory.
Recommended access privileges to /var/spool/mail are rwxrwxrwxt (01777)
-* Some versions of libgnome is known to have bugs that lead to
- balsa crash on startup. Read for details
- http://mail.gnome.org/archives/balsa-list/2000-October/msg00101.html
- and make sure you have at least /usr/lib/libgnome.so.32.3.11.
-
-* Experimental gcc 2.96 distributed with RedHat 7.0 generates
- spurious warning messages. You have to configure balsa with
- --disable-more-warnings option.
-
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