July 2006

We’ve just released X11 API demo code here (get skype-x11-testclient-20060728.tar.bz2 from that page).

One word of caution tho: the session termination code was not polished and robust in released open beta; one serious consequence of this is that if you terminate your API client application and launch it again, chances are high that X11 server will assign the same window ID to your handler and it will start receiving messages from the old session. This behaviour is fixed in latest closed beta and correct code will be released with next Open Beta update.

Please post your experience with the code here. I’m eager to hear your feedback.

With a major weather cooldown I’m also pleased to tell you that I’m finished with translations preparation — the strings are syncronized as much as possible. Quite a brainfucking task when you have +35C outside I would say.

Now I’m looking into doing a few “nice oh nice” fixes and then sketch a list of things to do for next major release (Will it be 1.4? Who knows.)

I hope to be mostly away from the PC next week, so take it naturally if I don’t respond :)

Well, this summer is damn hot here in Estonia. 31C today. No wonder you don’t hear from me a lot last week :) But here are some hot news from a hot country.

I’ve been digging i18n — a lot of strings were updated. We have around 1000 strings and many of them remain untranslated. I’m cleaning and cleaning and cleaning them up and my brain boils and then this temperature is here as well. Awful.

I collected reports from comments on this blog and from Skype forum — the feedback is pretty positive, but there are some serious problems that need to be fixed, so expect an update any time soon.

Warm laziness kicks in at this point. See you later folks, keep up the buzz.