Re: GtkHtml 1, 2 and 1->2



On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 11:51, Radek Doulík wrote:
> It's pity that you didn't tell me about this disscussion, I will be glad
> to join it :-(

Sorry about that.  There was really no formal planning for this
discussion -- we just happened to be sitting at the same table in the
GUADEC computer room and started talking about it.

Anyways, I believe Michael's intent with this mail was precisely to keep
the discussion going and reach a consensus.

> >       * We agreed that adding editing was the most difficult part of 
> >         making GtkHTML1 fly, and that adding it to GtkHTML2 is
> >         extremely non-trivial.
>
> I am not so sure about this. The difficult parts have been to rewrite
> previous broken editing implementation and design/implement UI (rather
> time consuming task).

I.e., you are saying, the most difficult part was indeed implementing
the editor.  :-)

>         * use gtkhtml2 as codebase
>         * port editing (plus other features - I think this is what some
>           people are forgetting about) to gtkhtml2. I think we could
>           reuse whole component code, add editing functionality to
>           gtkhtml2 widget.
>         * implement missing features required by Evolution.

That sounds like a big chunk of work.  From Evolution's perspective
starting the work again on GtkHTML2 would be suicidal.

-- 
Ettore



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