Re: AbiWord Fork or Replacement that does not require libgnome*

On Tuesday 21 February 2006 18:05, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> John R. Culleton wrote:
> > On Tuesday 21 February 2006 16:14, Ryan Pavlik wrote:
> >> John R. Culleton wrote:
> >>
> >> This is not a matter of "insisting on GNOME" and non-libgnomeprint unix
> >> printing, was, indeed, "broke." Libgnomeprint is a small and poorly
> >> named (as it doesn't require GNOME) library that provides immensive
> >> improvements to printing, improving the functionality for the users of
> >> AbiWord. Libgnomeprint is so useful, in fact, that it's being
> >> considered to be integrated into new releases of GTK+ (I believe). As a
> >> slackware user myself, I am aware of the removal of GNOME. A suggestion
> >> to include libgnomeprint and the related libraries, I feel, would not be
> >> an overwhelming request, because they do not bring in the entire GNOME
> >> tree. Furthermore, if you want to use the fully GNOME version of
> >> AbiWord, there are several distributions of GNOME for Slackware that
> >> will allow you to use the fully-GNOME version or the GTK+-only version
> >> equally well.
> >>
> >> Thanks for using AbiWord!
> >
> > Well now I am confused. Lots of other programs have printing
> > functions, implemented by interfacing with either cups or
> > lprng, depending on which package is in use at the particular
> > site. I have no idea what you mean about printing being poorly
> > implemented on Unix. It always worked for me.
>
> because you don't understand. cups or lprng are transport layers for
> printing. You still need to generated something the printer will
> understand, ie PostScript. libgnomeprint offers this generation to then
> send it to the printer. It is that Postscript code generation that cause
> LOT OF PROBLEMS. Now we can:
> 1/ spend time working on cool feature or important bugfixes
> 2/ spend time satisfying users that have decided that the Linux desktop
> should still stay the way it was 10 years ago.
>
> I pick 1/

Well I agree on that. And I would even be willing to contribute
within the limits of my skills. Some time back I pointed up the
fact that the LaTeX export was in need of a few simple fixes. I
asked what code module that function was located in. The silence
was deafening.

Sorry if I was a bit testy. I just wasted some time with an
unsuccessful install of a neat program that put me in the
"first you need A, but before A works you need B, but before B
works...." etc. It sounded like gnomeprint was an unnecessary
complication. Now I see that it is included with Gimp. But Gimp
isn't great in the PostScript area either, perhaps due to benign
neglect.

-- 
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