Re: making evince embeddable in other apps



El jue, 15-01-2009 a las 12:18 +0100, Tomeu Vizoso escribió:
> Hi all,
> 
> as you may have seen, I submitted yesterday some patches for your
> consideration [0]. These patches are required so that the document
> viewer used in Sugar [1] can use most of evince without having to
> duplicate a ton of code.
> 
> Reasons why I think this might interest you:
> 
> - easier for people to put a skin over evince's core -> more apps
> using evince's code
> 
> - more people using your code as released -> more users and contributors
> 
> - and because of GNOME Mobile, where new UIs are required for new user
> experiences and where having lots of #ifdef USE_HILDON is going to get
> very expensive for the GNOME community.
> 
> We need to get this in so the next releases of distros like F11 and
> Jaunty can carry a functional Sugar desktop, now that OLPC is letting
> us on our own [2] and [3].
> 
> I know that the 2.25 API/ABI freeze already passed three days ago, but
> I hope that you and the release team will agree that this addition
> won't be too invasive and that it will be worth it.

Thanks for the patches, I'll try to have a look at them ASAP. 

> Thanks,
> 
> Tomeu
> 
> [0] http://sugarlabs.org/go/Evince
> [1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Read
> [2] http://blog.laptop.org/2009/01/07/refocusing-on-our-mission
> [3] http://gregdek.livejournal.com/43698.html
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