Re: [Evolution-hackers] Formated Printing

[David Malcolm <dmalcolm redhat com>]

On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 12:22 +0530, Harish Krishnaswamy wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
>    Thanks for your interest.
> On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 13:15 -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> <snip>        
> > Can you point me in the right direction, or how can I help to work on
> > the solution.
> >     
> Drop in at irc.gimp.org at #evolution (or better still, on
> go-evolution.org) we can kick-start a discussion on this.
> (The planning page lacks sufficient details concerning this area.
> guenther - hint...hint ;-))
> Dave Malcolm has worked a bit on the printing stuff and
> the mailer guys would be useful contact points.
> I can pitch in to help too (with slight delays on find-greps ) :-)

Some random thoughts here...

There's a useful "printing" keyword in bugzilla.gnome.org; a keyword
search for that in evolution and GtkHtml currently shows up 35 bugs.

We really ought to get pango-ified printing support merged in (the
gnome_print_show API call doesn't do proper i18n); I've been patching
this into Fedora's evolution packages for a while (though this is for
the calendar and tasks, not the mailer) [1]  I'm a bad bad person and
haven't submitted this to evolution-patches for a while; sorry.


Thinking a bit further ahead, there's a lot of exciting activity going
on lower down the GNOME stack in printing (GTK and Cairo), but perhaps
we should wait until that lands in a stable GNOME/GTK release before
having Evolution depend on it?

Dave

[1] here are the relevant bugzilla links (which have patches)
Calendar fixes: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=272668
Addressbook fixes: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=269430