Re: [Logicmail-devel] Some CJK issues and how to contribute

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Thanks Derek for the detailed answer. I'm gona check the website at daytime and give you comments for the email below. (The auto-correct is so cool when I click space after input 'Im' )

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On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:21:05 +0800, Derek Konigsberg wrote:
> Sorry it took me so long to respond, but this has been a busy week in my real 
> job.  I'm hoping to spend some serious full-time effort on LogicMail when 
> everyone takes their holiday vacations at the end of this month, so hopefully 
> the pace will pick up then.
> 
> Quick note:  When I refer to "Version 2.0", I'm referring to the code 
> currently in development on "trunk", often tagged as "1.9.x" in the automated 
> builds.
> 
> > -- Prompt 'This message does not contain any sections that could be
> > displayed' when I> There are a lot of variables that could be involved in this.  Is the Chinese 
> text encoded with Unicode, or something legacy like GB2312, or something else?  
> Unicode is easy, GB2312 currently only works on East-Asia localized 
> BlackBerries that understand the character set, and anything else requires 
> LogicMail to actually contain a charset translation table.
> 
> > -- I'm quite interested in 'offline' access mode of IMAP, which is lack in
> > current version obviously.
> And is definitely going to be a major feature of the new version.  There are a 
> lot of little details of the offline caching to figure out, but I'm currently 
> focused on getting the basics working.
> 
> > -- UI: Two much steps for setting email account. Why not combine incoming
> > and outgoing server settings in one window, just like outlook or other
> >  email clients do?
> Actually, other e-mail clients do separate it.  They just often provide it all 
> in one place so you don't notice.  Version 2.0 does include a setup wizard 
> that will make this easier.  The configuration screens for version 2.0 are also 
> being improved a bit, though the overall structure hasn't changed yet.
> 
> > -- UI: battery and radio signal icons' layout are not so comfortable, can
> >  it consi> I can't use the system ones directly.  What I have to do is copy the system 
> ones, and implement something myself that looks exactly the same.  That being 
> said, I agree with you and the look of this could probably be improved.  
> Though the icons are different for devices running OS 4.5 and lower, versus 4.6 
> and up, so I'd either just use the 4.6 icons or include two versions of them.
> 
> >  -- UI: Essential text formatting tool: like bulleted list, Bold & italic
> >  tools, etc.
> Here you're basically asking for the ability to write HTML e-mail.  I've 
> honestly never even considered this feature, and creating a fancy-formatting 
> message editor field would be a lot of work I probably don't have time for.  
> However, if you were interested in working on such a thing, I'd gladly take 
> the contribution.
> 
> > -- CJK testing is quite necessary (Chinese, Japanese and Korean)
> It definitely is, and its something I can't do without the help of people like 
> you.  Same for localization (currently only have Chinese).  Another language 
> often forgotten in the mix is Vietnamese, which I've also included some 
> support for.  (the whole "Unicode normalization" option to deal with BB font 
> limitaitons which are finally fixed in OS 5.0)
> 
> > I'> Which BlackBerry OS version are you running?  I'm guessing its either 4.2 or 
> 4.5, but I could be wrong.  The whole BlackBerry UI actually got a bit of a 
> makeover in 4.6, and each new version includes more features.  I'm still 
> undecided where the cut-off for LogicMail 2.0 will be.  Its currently 4.2, but 
> could creep up to 4.5.
> 
> > I'm wondering how to join and make my contribution for the testing and dev.
> > I saw Derek's answer in one thread dated 2009-11-25, is that the
> > instructions I need follow?
> I rewrote the instructions on the developer info page on the website to match 
> what I put in the e-mail.  George hasn't written anything back since then, so 
> I'm not sure whathe's up to.
> 
> http://www.logicprobe.org/proj/logicmail/wiki/development
> 
> -Derek
> 
> On Wednesday 16 December 2009 11:51:46 pm OTA Ware wrote:
> > hi all,
> > I've been used logicmail for a couple of days. I've found the following
> > issues might be interesting for the development:
> > -- Prompt 'This message does not contain any sections that could be
> > displayed' when I try to open some mail containing Chinese text.
> > -- I'm quite interested in 'offline' access mode of IMAP, which is lack in
> > current version obviously.
> > -- UI: Two much steps > > and outgoing server settings in one window, just like outlook or other
> >  email clients do?
> > -- UI: battery and radio signal icons' layout are not so comfortable, can
> >  it consider to use system ones? Gray and black instead of blue and green?
> >  -- UI: Essential text formatting tool: like bulleted list, Bold & italic
> >  tools, etc.
> > -- CJK testing is quite necessary (Chinese, Japanese and Korean)
> > 
> > I'm currently using LogicMail v1.1.0 on my BlackBerry 8310.
> > 
> > I'm wondering how to join and make my contribution for the testing and dev.
> > I saw Derek's answer in one thread dated 2009-11-25, is that the
> > instructions I need follow?
> > 
> > otaware
> > 
> 
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