Re: GtkHtml 1, 2 and 1->2

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On 10 Apr 2002, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> 
> Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM> writes:
> > > That's certainly the short-term plan, but these widgets involve a lot
> > > of code, and we really need to pick one of them and push it to feature
> > > completeness I think.
> > > 
> > > I guess in the end it doesn't matter what we declare on the mailing
> > > list - the issue is which one the people doing the work decide to work
> > > on. Right now Ximian really wants to put effort into GtkHTML1, but it
> > > sounds like Sun wants to do the accessibility work on GtkHTML2, so
> > > it's sort of unclear.
> > > 
> > 
> > gtkhtml2 will be in the Sun release - there is no chance of anything else
> > hapenning given the present timelines - so a certain amount of maintenance
> > will happen to it. To which level it will be completed as a merit of this
> > is a biot unclear (other than rendering gnome help docs), but its also the
> > only acessible html view on the horizon. 
> > 
> 
> Yeah, at the moment Sun (and probably Red Hat too) "must" fix GtkHTML2
> since we need Yelp to work in GNOME 2... but Ximian "must" fix
> GtkHTML1 in order to port Evolution. So short-term probably there's no
> way around having to fix both at least a bit.
> 

Well, with things like tentative beta build schedule floating around, I
would much rather describe the port of evolution as a hard requirement as
a mid-term thing or something similar...

> However I'm hoping we can sort of be moving away from one of them...
> maintaining both long term doesn't sound very fun to me.
> 

True.

> > The present gtkhtml2 bug list is deceptively short for something
> > supposedly non-feature complete anyways...
> > 
> 
> I think that's essentially a function of not having help wired up yet,
> so no one is trying to use Yelp. Which is why wiring this up should
> probably be priority "higher than anything else" in the bug tracker...
> 

My understanding from what our "docs" people are saying is that both
having help buttons wired up correctly and scrollkeeper & stylesheet
issues are being looked at. help and the propsect of another "helpless"
milestone will both be up on release teams plate on friday.

>
> Havoc
> 

	Sander

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