Re: Gnome Office, Bonobo and other apps

[msevior physics unimelb edu au]

> Hi,
>
> I have started developing applications related to chemistry (GChemPaint
> and Gnome Crystal) some years ago, using the gtk+ and gnome libs with
> the hope I'll be able one day to incorporate data inside Abiword and
> other gnome apps using Bonobo.
> I could do it in gnumeric-1.0 (but the data were not saved) but never in
> abiword, which would be much more interesting.
> I'd like to know if there are plans to use Bonobo embedding (may be I
> can help).
>

We've thought about this a fair bit. The plans are still there but they
haven't been followed through. One step we thought we needed first was to
have a way of making SVG representation of our applications. In particular
the idea was to do this via gnome-print. ie print ot svg like pdf or ps. I
think dom has recently committed code to gnome-print to do this. So now we
just have include proper SVG support in our apps.

I guess my question you would be what does bonobo embedding get you? Would
having a nice vector representation be sufficient?

Cheers

Martin

> Best regards,
>
> Jean Brefort.
>