Re: Feature proposal: Alternative input system based on low-cost webcam

[Juanjo Marín <juanjomarin96 yahoo es>]

----- Mensaje original -----
> De: Michael Biebl <mbiebl gmail com>
> Para: Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>
> CC: Cesar Mauri <cesar crea-si com>; desktop-devel-list gnome org
> Enviado: lunes 24 de octubre de 2011 0:31
> Asunto: Re: Feature proposal: Alternative input system based on low-cost webcam
> 
> 2011/10/22 Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>:
>>  On 21 October 2011 17:28, Piñeiro <apinheiro igalia com> wrote:
>>>   * Look and feel: some people could not agree with current interface
>>>  [2]. This shouldn't be a blocker thought.
>>>  This feature proposal would include the proposal of wxWidgets
>>>  as a external dependency.
>> 
>>  wxWidgets applications differ lots from "native" applications. I
>>  really don't think depending on wxWidgets is a good idea.
> 
> Although I'm not an active user of wxWidgets I do know that the
> maintenance of wxWidgets in Debian has always been a major hassle.
> E.g. there still isn't a stable upstream release of wxWidgets that
> supports GTK 3. There is supposed to be one beginning next year, but
> apparently that has been said since almost three years.
> And the current stable branch, 2.8, still uses obsolete libraries like
> libgnomeprint and apparently wxWidgets upstream likes to introduce
> disruptive changes within a stable branch.
> 


GTK+3 support is in the roadmap for the next stable wxWidgets 3.0. And 
there is development branch with workable code in [1].

I think that the printing support comment is not applicable here, because 
the use of  wxWidgets is pretty limited to the GUI. Anyway, the use of 
libgnomeprint was optional and beginning with version  wxWidgets 2.9, 
you can use the GTK+ printing support [2].  

Cheers,

    -- Juanjo Marin

[1] http://svn.wxwidgets.org/svn/wx/wxWidgets/branches/SOC2011_GTK3/
[2] http://docs.wxwidgets.org/2.9.2/overview_unixprinting.html