[Evolution-hackers] Re: [Gtkhtml] [patch] Printing with Pango

[Radek Doulík <rodo novell com>]

On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 15:58 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> Here's a first draft of my patch to make gtkhtml print with Pango.
> There's almost no new code here, it's just moving stuff around,
> removing code that is no longer needed, and fixing up units.
>
> Open questions:
>
>  - Assuming that we can come up with a final patch, how do we get it
>    into CVS? 
I would like to keep it on separate branch, say gnome-2-8, so that HEAD gtkhtml is the one required for HEAD evolution.

>    The current plan is to get the changes in Pango and gnome-print
>    released in time for the gnome-2.8 API/ABI freeze on July 19th,
>    but a gnome-2.8 dependency may not fit in with Evolution plans.
I am Cc-ing evolution-hackers list to make sure there are no other plans.

>    Would it be possible to branch early for a pre-GNOME-2.8 release
>    and land these changes on HEAD? I think I and/or Dave Malcom
>    could help port changes from stable => HEAD if necessary.
>
>    In general, I think people would be really excited if they could
>    print Indic languages for GNOME-2.8. (Unfortunately, bidi 
>    languages still will be broken.)
Yes, your gnome-print work is really great news. The gtkhtml still needs some work to display RTL languages right, but it's pretty close (we need reorder pango items IIRC).

Cheers
Radek