Re: Gnome Office updates

[Charles Goodwin <charlie xwt org>]

msevior physics unimelb edu au wrote:
> I've been lurking of the inkscape mailing list. There is a *lot* of energy
> , enthusiasm and new code there.

Yeah, I noticed too.  I think they made up a large portion of activity 
on the Sodipodi project and Sodipodi will really suffer as a result.

> We definitely need excellent vector graphics within Gnome-Office and these
> guys could help us a lot. There appears to be substantial interest in
> joining Gnome_office but we should certainly ask them first.

They have some very compatible goals with Gnome Office, such as HIG 
support.  Gnome Office is always going to be a set of *willing* 
applications so it is implicit that they must advocate membership.

That does not prevent us from linking to any non-member project as an 
alternative application for Gnome.

> At some point we hope to have full SVG support within AbiWord and Gnumeric.

For some reason I recall, from the AbiWord mailing lists, complaints 
about aspects of librsvg.  Perhaps Inkscape could provide an alternative 
form/method?  I don't know, consider that meaningless speculation.

> Dom and Jody have some plans to use librsvg with some Gnumeric technology
> to print SVG images. We also want to be able render AbiWord and Gnumeric
> documents into SVG. In the past I thought this could be accomplished with
> a SVG backend for Gnome-Print.
>
> However I don't know who the current maintainer of Gnome-Print is and what
> plans the person has for it.

Is Gnome-Print part of Gnome?  Is it related to Gimp-Print?

- Charlie