Re: Gnome Office updates

[aigiskos <aigiskos yahoo com>]

I believe that Jody is the new maintainer of GNOME
print (libgnomeprint, libgnomeprintui).

--- msevior physics unimelb edu au wrote:
> > tor 2003-11-20 klockan 12.55 skrev Charles
> Goodwin:
> >> Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> >>  >> Sodipodi - www.sodipodi.com
> >>  >> Inkscape (fork of SodiPodi) -
> www.inkscape.org
> >>  >
> >>  >
> >>  > Should we really list both of them here? This
> is just going to lead
> >> to confusion imho.
> >>
> >> IMHO, yes, we should.
> >>
> >> They are now two separate projects heading in two
> separate directions,
> >>  although both handling a similar task; vector
> grahpics editing.
> >>
> >> Unless Gnome Office is going to be ruthless on a
> 'advocate one app
> >> only  for each task', which is not something I
> would have thought we
> >> would  want to be doing.
> >>
> >> Maybe Gnome Office should only contain a single
> application for any
> >> single task, but we should still promote other
> viable Gnome
> >> alternatives.
> >
> > I was mostly thinking that maybe we should wait a
> bit until they are
> > actually more distinct? At least I would be very
> confused if I saw two
> > projects looking and behaving the same, which one
> to use?
> >
> > Anyway, good to see someone finally digging into
> GNOME Office :)
> >
> 
> I've been lurking of the inkscape mailing list.
> There is a *lot* of energy
> , enthusiasm and new code there. 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.
> 
> At some point we hope to have full SVG support
> within AbiWord and Gnumeric.
> 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.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> 
> > Cheers,
> >   Mikael Hallendal
> > --
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> >
> >
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> 
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