cGmail 0.4.1 released

Today I’ve released a maintence version of cGmail. This version include some nasty bugs fix.

No sound bug (Now it should work well)
Pop3 bug. This bug prevented cGmail to notify correctly incoming mails on pop3 accounts. Now it works
Autostart option bug. In cGmail 0.4 autostart option in preferences menu don’t worked well when the […]

gnome.sound_play method do not work on Ubuntu Gutsy

I’ve noticed that the sound_play method from the gnome python package no longer work on Gutsy release and this is a bad thing. As you probabily have read I’ve released the 0.4 version of cGmail. cGmail by default prefer this method to play sounds on new incoming messages (that worked fine in feisty and before) […]

cGmail 0.4 released

Do you already know cGmail? And do you know that I develop that cool app ? Well I’m happy to announce that cGmail 0.4 is out. Please visit cGmail home page at http://cgmail.tuxfamily.org/ for more info about what cGmail is and to give it a try.

What’s new?
Well this version include a completely restructured code. […]

Tip: Vim and python indentation

Usually I prefer tabs indentation rather than space indentation for python code. Unfortunately often python code from open source projects or code that you can find on the net use space indentation. To convert from one to the other you can simply use a vim substitution.
Example:

:%s/ /\t/g

It’s as simple as this […]

How to make a looking glass window with python and cairo

Do you know awn and affinity? They are njpatel works. He use mainly c to develop this applications. I’m a python lover and I wanted to obtain similar stilish results in python. So I looked at njpatel code to take its secrets and implement something similar in python. Njpatel’s apps make heavy use of cairo […]

Gtk About Dialog

The example that follow show a gtk about dialog with a working close button and a working external link button. We will obtain something like this:

We will put focus on how to obtain a response when we click on the link. The funcion that do the trick is gtk.about_dialog_set_url_hook that set a callback […]