KCheckGMail 0.5.8.1 released

A new KCheckGMail (KDE3) version is out.

Google changed GMail's login procedure. This release updates KCheckGMail to work with the new login procedure. It updates both GMail accounts and hosted accounts login procedure.

Just download it here.

The shortest release ever & new GMail login

KCheckGMail 0.5.8 release was delayed for more than an year (I think). The day I finally release KCheckGMail Google changed GMail's login procedure. 0.5.8 useful lifetime was less than a day.

I already updated both KDE3 and KDE4 versions to work with the new GMail login procedure. You can download the latest snapshots from the development repo.

For the KDE3 version grab the latest snapshot from the 0_5_8_x branch.
For the KDE4 version grab the latest snapshot from the kde4-port branch.

p.s. Hosted domain accounts not yet updated. I don't have an account to test it.

Compiler Warnings - Fixed & Silenced

I met many programmers that just hate them. In some cases they don't even bother to take look at them. I take them seriously. They are indicators of possible bugs. Bugs that you only see at runtime.

I always check them. If the compiler is right just fix it. It it's an false positive, silent it. There are many techniques to silent false positive compiler warnings. Just pick the right one.

When I compile someone else's program and see a lot of warnings, some questions always come to my mind: "Why didn't the programmer fixed this? Did he/she at least take a look? Did he/she take a look and didn't understood the problem? ... ".

Today I fixed and silenced all GCC warnings I saw.

An Open button on new mail notifications@KDE3

In my last post I stated that implementing this functionality on KDE3 would be much harder than on KDE4. I was wrong. The KNotification class on the 4.x API is based on the Kopete (3.5 branch ) notifications. I just borrowed the Kopete KNotification class.

Kudos to Olivier Goffart (KNotification author) and all the people that worked on it.

New mail arrived notification with an Open button - KDE3

New mail arrived notification with an Open button - KDE3
(Courtesy of David Bruyer)

Attachment Indicator

The Threads Menu entries now have an attachment indicator. A very simple feature but a very useful one (I think). It's already implemented in KDE3 and KDE4 versions. Take a look at the screenshots.

Attachment Indicator @ KDE3 version

Attachment Indicator @ KDE4 version