Gajim - 2025-02-22

I have issues with font kerning in Gajim. Is this a known issue?

i feel like thats more likely an issue with the old version of gtk that gajim seems to be utilizing

Ohh

jjj333_p (any pronouns), on master Gajim is using the very latest GTK. :)

i thought gtk was on 4 or 5

But text rendering is still done by pango, and I’m not aware of any change here.

jjj333_p (any pronouns), 4.16.12 is the latest, and Gajim master works fine on it.

ah. im on the stable version

A new Gajim release is near

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> A new Gajim release is near 🎉 ↺

lovetox pushed 1 commits to branch gajim/master cfix: Windows: Make spawning processes work on Windows - https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/-/commit/bac06e6642e8007926e128b3c5b8118b7d807e36

Yeah, I'm translating the website post in french

but as I do it I see a translation mistake of mine: did "Direct Messages" and "Direct Message…" in item menu permit to send "private" messages to someone? Or did" direct" mean everyone can see it in the chat group but the person is "mentionned"?

lovetox pushed 1 commits to branch gajim/master cfix: App: Don’t init process pool on module import - https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/-/commit/ffb57db67eadf988cb0e75a38bcef6ca4a14c141

Codimp, direct means, you know the contacts full jid, and it will open single chat window

so the opposite of a private message, which is sent via the MUC

but only the person will receive my message, right?

I'm a bit confuse

Codimp: PM (Private Message): the message is routed via an MUC to keep JIDs anonymous DM (Direct Message): the JID must be known and the message is sent directly to the other party

ok… I still think this terms are really confusing for users, but I will keep "Message direct" in french

thanks for your help, the post is now translated into french ^^

yes its probably not understandable what the difference is

but you as translator cannot do anything about that, its not your job to explain xmpp specific concepts to users

yep I know, I just want to understand the real purpose to be sure to translate the real meaning of the option

Private Message is a xmpp specific term in the spec

so it should be translated as closely as possible

Direct Message we invented, to try to show its something different

so i would say try to keep both terms as closely as possible

oh ok, didn't know direct messages was a Gajim invention

the technical side is not a gajim invention, but giving it a name like "Direct" is, its not defined somewhere in specs that we call a single chat message "Direct"

Private Messages are routed via the MUC, so not directly sent to the contact

Single Chat Messages are

I mean we could think about it, if we rename that option to something with "Single Chat" included

but people still would wonder what private message is

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A flowbox works also quiet nice, but we can't simply use factory or liststore with it. Need to investigate how performance and resource usages can be improved:

https://share.conversations.im/meeson_/wYbc1KSYEeOwvwNA/Screenshot_20250222_173720.jpg

lovetox pushed 1 commits to branch gajim/master refactor: Add multiprocess module - https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/-/commit/3277ce24318e239035eeec45c98dcbe6af6ff3a3

lovetox, somehow I've had expected we might tap into a rabbit hole with multiprocessing. Thanks for refactoring the code. How did you notice it was necessary?

code didnt work on windows, then i read up on it a bit, and its quite complex

on linux it spawns a process with fork() by default, which basically copies the whole process to a new process, so not much can go wrong

but windows uses spawn() which copies nothing and sets up a new process by executing basically the inital script that starts gajim again, which you need to specially guard against

further it imports the whole module where the function is that you execute, so if you have any imports there that have side effects, its bad again

Thanks, quiet complex to handle it right. I was surprised it seemed so simple in the beginning.

i guess it becomes complex when used in a real application, all that stuff does not matter if you have a single script

Yeah