[sylpheed:34701] Re: Quick search style patch, gtkrc and ml

[Hiroyuki Yamamoto]

Hello,

On Wed, 3 Aug 2011 18:26:36 +0900
Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 23:15:12 +0200
> speps <speps at gmx.com> wrote:
> 
> > first of all, thanks for this great mail client.
> > I'm just sad in realizing there is no bug tracker system.
> > I found some older posts about this topic, and seems like
> > there is no intention to switch to any bug tracking platform.
> 
> Actually I want to have a new BTS, but I cannot determine what system
> is the best yet.
> 
> > Mailing list is surely a good tool too, btw at least would be
> > better if we had more than a single ml to handle all topics.
> > 
> > It could be more complex, ex
> > sylpheed-users    -> for any end user question
> > sylpheed-bugs     -> a place to signal bugs and send patches
> > sylpheed-requests -> for any feature request
> > 
> > or simpler
> > sylpheed       -> any end user topic (help, info, functionalities)
> > sylpheed-devel -> any development related topic (bugs, requests, patches)
> > 
> > This could be a middle solution, but this is just my opinion.
> 
> When I started the development of Sylpheed, I intentionally provided
> only one mailing list, because I didn't want to divide users and
> developers into two groups.
> 
> But maybe it is better to have several purpose-based MLs at this time.
> 
> > Attached is a patch, already applied on AUR (ARCHLINUX) [1]
> > I'm the actual maintainer.
> > 
> > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=43541
> 
> I've applied your patch to svn trunk. Thanks!
> 
> > =========================================================================
> > 
> > At last, as a feature request, it would be nice if sylpheed fetches
> > for gtkrc file path through the GTK2_RC_FILES default environment
> > variable, and then fall back to the ~/.gtkrc-2.0 if not found.
> > 
> > Most of the Gtk applications support this standard, so multiple gtkrc
> > can be stored and applied by executing
> > 
> > GTK2_RC_FILES="/path/to/gtkrc" appname
> > 
> > without modifying the main ~/.gtkrc-2.0 every time is needed.
> 
> I'll look into that later.

I have tried the following command line, and it seems to be working.

$ GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/Crux/gtk-2.0/gtkrc src/sylpheed

-- 
Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp>