Right now Sigil master is in a state of flux. Many components are being removed and replaced. Python 3 is going to be a hard dependency (it will be embedded by default). Right now Python 3 and a few packages are required to be installed on your system to build and run Sigil. Specifically: Python3.4+ … Continue reading Sigil Master Flux In Python
Month: February 2015
KDocker's Future With Waylands 1.7.0 Protocol "done" announcement
It was announced today that the Wayland protocol is now done. Wayland being the up and coming replacement for Xorg this poses a challenge for KDocker. KDocker uses X11, Xpm, and Xmu specifically to manipulate and dock windows. While Wayland is supposed to provide an X compatibility layer as we all know about compatibility layers … Continue reading KDocker's Future With Waylands 1.7.0 Protocol "done" announcement
Sigil and BookView Research Update
As many Sigil users know, Sigil has a WYSIWYG editor portion. It's also in my mind substandard. It gets the job done for quick edits but it's not as full featured as I'd like. Especially when I'm used to using editors like WordPress's editor. Back in 2012 I started researching updating the BookView editor. This … Continue reading Sigil and BookView Research Update
New Home Page / Web Site
Sigil now has a home page! I'll still be cross posting release announcements here on my blog but this does mean means that the "Making Epub Happen" sigildev blog will be retired as the new home page will include all release and other Sigil related announcements. This also means that the Google Code page is … Continue reading New Home Page / Web Site
Sigil 0.8.4 Released
With only one day after the 0.8.3 release 0.8.4 is being released. My deepest apologies because this means there is a bad bug. Admittedly it will only impact a very small amount of users but it was big enough to warrant a new release. Unfortunately during refactoring of "remove all plugins" code the actual remove … Continue reading Sigil 0.8.4 Released
Copyright Notices and the Importance of Year
Introduction One thing I've recently noticed (especially with web developers) is they leave off the copyright year entirely. Now realize I AM NOT A LAWYER! This is my layman's understanding based on reading the relevant sections of US copyright law. None of what I have to say is legal advice and should be taken with … Continue reading Copyright Notices and the Importance of Year
