Bug 614496 – mail-client/claws-mail-3.17.0: Re-enable dillo support

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Klaus Kusche 2017-04-02 08:23:35 UTC]

In 3.15, upstream has re-introduced the dillo plugin as an alternative to webkit
for reading html mail. However, the gentoo 3.15.0 ebuild does not support dillo.

Please add support and an USE flag for dillo!

[Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2017-04-03 09:42:19 UTC]

Sorry but NEWS file from claws-mail-3.15.0 says the opposite:

  plugins have been dropped: TrayIcon, Dillo Viewer, and Gtkhtml2
  Viewer.

And indeed, looking at configure.ac file, the dillo-plugin switch has been commented out and commenting it back in does not build dillo plugin.
So unfortunately there's nothing that can be done here other than convincing upstream to re-enable it.

[Comment 2 Klaus Kusche 2017-04-03 11:22:50 UTC]

Sorry, I didn't check the release, 
but there have definitely been dillo commits in the claws repository recently:

http://git.claws-mail.org/?p=claws.git;a=commit;h=1e068dbfc2837809030dcbf0173d2841a411d95a

http://git.claws-mail.org/?p=claws.git;a=commit;h=2bf719fcbf4e1e2cbfb0b574db48c468375e4dbf

Can we take them?

[Comment 3 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2017-04-03 12:11:34 UTC]

claws-mail upstream recommends to not introduce the plugin yet. It's still considered being in developemnt. That's the reason why they did not add it to the release tarball (despite being in the 3.15.0 tagged git tree).

[Comment 4 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2018-08-17 15:37:29 UTC]

dillo plugin is back in claws-mail-3.17.0 and the ebuild was changed accordingly.