Ok, its finally there! Beautiful isn’t it?
I’m also planning to add filters to view only certain types of tasks. This could be useful, if we would like to provide a pop3 download dialog, showing the progress of all pop3 at once. This is comparable to Outlooks dialog or Evolutions progress dialog.
Ok, its finally available.
Forum announcement:
http://columba.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=399
Download at:
http://columba.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=download_unstable
Hana commited a patch which uses the win32 registry to determine mimetypes based on file extensions. New code can be found in package org.columba.nativ.mimetype.
I’ve gone through the plugins and fixed compile errors. The python plugins were updated, too.
The About Dialog, now also features an Acknowledgement page, listing all third-party libraries we use in Columba.
I’ve started making use of the new online/offline connection status.
When downloading or sending messages, Columba automatically switches to online state. If in offline status, Columba won’t automatically check for new messages.
Fixed bugs:
- #966413: mimetype viewer doesn’t remember apps
- fixed classcast exception, actions are enabled/disabled correctly again in addressbook
- group dialog didn’t show up in addressbook
- #968740, can’t choose folder in filter dialog, if treemodel is not sorted
I’ve added a new error dialog, called ErrorDialog. It contains a “show details” button. This is already used as general error dialog for all bugs happening in Commands, if not already catched in commands.
Additionally, you can see better error messages, for things like HostNotFoundException.
The new profile management code is now in CVS. A sort overview can be found in our wiki.
Hope you like it!
I never get bored of fixing bugs. Also, the header-cache should be more failsafe now.
- fixed incoming spam filter bug, using less threads leads to increased performance
- #964416 and #964415: both selection handling bugs
- replace filter/filteractions combobox with menu, showing the user all available items without the need to scroll
- fixed tablemodel update notification in updateGUI() from MarkFolderAsRead command
Many users ask how to start Columba using a different configuration folder.
Why not add a profile selection Dialog?
This can be achieved pretty easily:
- add a “profiles.xml” to the default configuration directory
- if Columba is started an no profiles are specified in this file, it will just use
the default location
- if profiles are specified, a dialog prompts the user for a profile
- if Columba is started with the –path option, the user can do this selection
automatically, without the need of the dialog.
Example of the profiles.xml:
The Profile Management Dialog is simply a list showing all available profiles and buttons to manage them.
This way people can easily start Columba with their different configurations including usbsticks, etc.
We’ve had some interesting problems with corrupt configuration or headercache files, which is always annoying for users.
Following the proposal to fix this particular issue. The proposed behaviour can be found in other applications pretty often, too.
Saving files:
- save the configuration/headercache file to “blabla.new”
- if success:
– rename the old file to “blabla.old”
– rename “blabla.new” to “blabla”
Loading files:
- try to load “blabla”
- if the file is corrupt:
– delete “blabla”
– open “blabla.old” instead (fall-back to the last working configuration)
Columba has been preselected by the german c’t magazin (http://www.heise.de). If it gets finally selected, we’ll end up on their shareware cdrom shipped with the magazin, which includes an article about Columba.
I have been trying to get their attention for one year now, but they refused to write about Columba or post news. Always made me feel silly, because we even got articles from Brasilian magazins, so why not german magazins – at last, both Timo and me are from Germany!
As a c’t magazin reader/subscriber for almost 12 years, I’d love to read about my own stuff 
