>
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering whether work towards more finely-grained gnome
> dependencies would have a chance of being accepted into HEAD (since Dom
> recently warned me not to touch the m4 macros).
>
> What I'd like to have is the possibility of building against gnome-print
> as the only dependency from the gnome lib stack. This would IMHO be a
> good compromise between preserving valuable functionality and stripping
> of things that are not needed as much. What I'm not yet sure about is
> how code depending on gnome-canvas (like the toolbar colour dropdowns)
> should be handeled. (gnome-print depends on gnome-canvas BTW)
> Maybe we can resync that stuff with gnumeric, they should have a
> gnome-less version of most things.
>
> Proposal:
> + new: --enable-gnomeprint (auto, default=true), WITH_GNOMEPRINT
> + --enable-gnome will also set WITH_GNOMEPRINT
> + maybe implement a gnome-less version of the clipart dialog.
>
> Why?
> + For people not having a full gnome installation it will be easier to
> get a reasonably featurefull abiword running (e. g. by using the
> autopackage).
> + Since nautilus doesn't do embedding any more the bonobo control
> provides only limited extra functionality for normal users.
>
> Please tell me if i'm getting important facts wrong.
>
> Thanks for your comments,
I'm not in favour of this. When I develop for the gnome version of AbiWord
I want the whole platform to be present. I'm not interested in working
around what someone's favourite combination of libs is.
If someone wants a light version of abiword the gtk-only version is there
already.
Martin
Received on Mon Feb 28 15:01:21 2005
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