[fetchmail-devel] Maintainer wanted for fetchmailconf (was: Fetchmailconf)

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Ken McLennan schrieb am 2008-01-24:

>     I'm not sure whether this list covers fetchmailconf, so please 
> forgive me if I've transgressed. I'm not even 100% sure that the problem 
> lies with fetchmailconf or whether it's an issue with python or tkinter, 
> however I'm sure there is someone here who uses fetchmailconf so I 
> thought that I'd ask.
> 
>    I use a popular Linux distro on my laptop which has a 1280 x 800 
> screen. When I flash up fetchmailconf in Expert mode (I'm writing this 
> from Windoze and I can't recall whether it's 'Expert' or 'Advanced') to 
> gain access to more settings I find that I can't get to the bottom part 
> of the form and therefore can't enter or change any settings in that 
> part of it. I've tried resizing the window (Gnome Desktop but 
> WindowMaker is the same. I assume all window managers will be) but that 
> changes the window, not the form drawn on it. Has anyone else come 
> across this problem and if so have you found a resolution?
> 
>     I know I can alter settings with my text editor, or I can use 
> fetchmailconf on my desktop and then copy the configuration files 
> across, but that's a pain in the rear and kinda defeats the purpose of 
> having the utility at all.

Hi Ken,

you're right, and even claiming fetchmailconf were only kept at back
burner would be a major exaggeration... I know virtually nothing of Tk,
so if there are magic attributes to set, someone let me know or send a
patch to make Tk add scrollbars automatically.

I'd be happy to see someone else restructure the whole UI and rewrite
that utility in a much more ergonomic and self-explaning way with a
modern toolkit, be that Gtk+, Qt, wxWidgets or perhaps something else
that is reasonably portable, and I don't mind if that then happens to be
C++, C# (if that person can help me getting C# autoconf/automake stuff
done and the possibility of excluding this from the build), Lua or Ruby
instead of Python.  Perl or shell might not be the best choice though.

If that doesn't happen before 6.4 enters release candidate status, I'll
probably drop fetchmailconf or toss it to contrib/ so as to mark it
unsupported.

Sorry, but I'm already way behind with 6.3.9, so I took the decision of
letting fetchmailconf long a go.

Volunteers to the rescue! (To coordinate efforts and avoid duplication
thereof, please use the fetchmail-devel mailing list. It's very low
traffic.)

Thanks in advance and best regards

-- 
Matthias Andree