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

John R. Culleton wrote:

>On Friday 17 February 2006 05:34, J.M. Maurer wrote:
>
>
>>On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 17:33 +1100, msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>IS there a fork of Abiword that does not require
>>>>libgnomeprint and it's billions of other dependent
>>>>gnome libs? :P
>>>>
>>>>I can't be the only one who thinks its absurd to claim
>>>>that abiword does not require gnome, when it requires
>>>>a dozen gnome libs. Printing was just fine without
>>>>libgnomeprint!
>>>>
>>>>
>>a) printing was NOT fine without gnomeprint (maybe for you, but not for
>>all users (by far)
>>
>>b) libgnomeprint only depends on gnomecanvas, which doesn't depend on
>>anything else. If it does for you, than your package management is
>>broken.
>>
>>Marc
>>
>>
>
>
>Just FYI, the next release of Slackware, due out in April, will
>have all the Gnome stuff taken out. This is a clear case if it
>ain't broke don't fix it. If you insist on Gnome then you will
>lose part of your user base. Some others will just stick with
>obsolete versions of Abiword to avoid the hassle.
>
>John Culleton
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>
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!

-- 
Ryan Pavlik
AbiWord Win32 Platform Maintainer
www.abisource.com
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