Hi, Emerillon is a map viewer. Aiming at simple user interface, Emerillon is a powerful, extensible application. It features OpenStreetMap based maps. Use it to browse maps, search the map for places, placemark places for later quick access and more! Web Site: http://www.novopia.com/emerillon/ Over the past weeks, people have asked me over and over to propose Emerillon to be included in Gnome 2.30. While I do want to see it widely distributed and recognized, it is my understanding that in the future (based on GCDS presentations), Gnome would not accept general applications as modules. Emerillon uses Gnome technologies. Emerillon follows Gnome HIG and UI concepts. It would be a perfect fit. But is that why we should include it in Gnome? The same reasoning could apply to some of the latest additions in Gnome: should we include it in Gnome simply because it is good? AFAIR, the new www.gnome.org will make place for applications to be promoted. Such visibility could replace inclusion. A sort of "blessed" application set. That would be fine for Emerillon I think. On the technical side of proposing Emerillon in Gnome: * The following dependencies are not blessed Gnome dependencies: * Ethos http://git.dronelabs.com/ethos/ * librest http://moblin.org/projects/librest * Geoclue http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/GeoClue * It is already using Gnome resources (git, ftp, bugzilla, l10n) * Packages are already available for Debian, Ubuntu Karmic, Fedora Rawhide, Gentoo overlay, OpenSuse * It is 3.0 ready (Goal wise) * It is GPL 2+ with some files LGPL in case they'd be worthy of making part of a future lib. * Emerillon is quite young yet. It doesn't even have a release schedule or a stable release, but it can be made to follow Gnome's. * On the A11y side, it lags just like libchamplain does. Users will still be able to see the data in sidebars, but the map itself is "opaque". * On the l10n side, thanks to the very efficient Gnome l10n teams, Emerillon is already available in 7 languages! So what does the community think? Pierre-Luc Beaudoin
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