Re: gnomeprint dependencies?

GTK+ 2.10 will have an integrated printing system and
we'll use that when the time comes.

Otherwise, the benefits of using GnomePrint are
enormous:

*) Uniformity and expressiveness of the user interface
*) Less complex code
*) More maintainable code
*) Fewer bugs
*) More useful features
*) When it breaks, it's largely someone else's problem

Drawbacks:

*) Someone doesn't want a 5MB gnome library on their
200GB hard disk.

And I'm not willing to accept that. If the Nokia 770
can deal with it, so can you.

Besides, a proper installation of GTK+ needs those
icon themes anyway...

--- Ryan Pavlik <abiryan@ryand.net> wrote:

>
> David Gómez wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >On Oct 12 at 02:29:22, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> >
> >
> >>gnomeprint is a requirement now.
> >>
> >>gnomeprint does not depend on gnome.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I needed to install, in order to be able to compile
> abiword 2.4:
> >
> >libgnomeprint
> >libgnomeprintui
> >libgnomecanvas
> >gnome-icon-themes
> >hicolor-icon-theme
> >
> >To say that these aren't gnome dependencies,
> well... Seeing this, I hope than
> >in future versions abiword doesn't become a gnome
> application :-/
> >
> >Thanks for your help,
> >
> >David
> >
> >
> >
> The reason the libgnomeprint dependency was added
> was because it allows
> for much more accurate and reliable printing.
> Without it, the AbiWord
> developers also had to maintain a custom PostScript
> output routine,
> which was problematic. Hence why it's being phased
> out - libgnomeprint
> also gives us PDF output with little additional
> code. Don't worry, the
> AbiWord developers understand that part of the
> appeal of AbiWord is its
> small footprint and lightweight dependencies.
>
> I personally would double-check and make sure those
> icon themes are
> strictly necessary - I haven't much experience
> compiling Abi on anything
> but a GNOME workstation and Windows, but from what
> I've heard, only the
> gnomeprint (and therefore gnomecanvas) are required
> (and that is an
> extremely small bit of GNOME that would do well to
> become
> cross-environment, at least based on its user
> experience).
>
> Ryan
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