Re: Printing

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On 12/04/2006 10:30:42 PM, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> Balsa currently uses the Gnome printing libraries to print a message;
>
> these are "heading towards planned deprecation"[1], so we should head
>
> towards a plan to move to GtkPrint.  We should plan for that move
> anyway, as it gives much better control of printing.
>
> But...to print html message parts, Balsa must be built with gtkhtml3,
>
> which uses the Gnome libraries.  So unless/until gtkhtml3 is ported to
>
> GtkPrint, we have the options:
> 1.  Stick with Gnome printing and keep the ability to print html
> parts;
> 2.  Move to GtkPrint and lose the ability to print html parts;
> 3.  I don't see a third option.

I would vote for 2 - I am not a big fan of HTML mail anyway, and  
gtkhtml3 will most likely be ported to GtkPrint model one day.

Pawel
PS. I think we have accumulated a number of patches since last release  
and current CVS seems quite stable to me. Does anybody see problems  
with CVS that should delay a next release?