Re: Goffice and cairo

[Jean Bréfort <jean brefort normalesup org>]

Le mercredi 13 septembre 2006 à 10:57 +0200, Emmanuel Pacaud a écrit :
> Le dimanche 10 septembre 2006 à 16:24 +0200, Emmanuel Pacaud a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to make cairo a dependency of goffice HEAD.
> >
> > I'm working on the graph cairo renderer for quite some time now, and is
> > in good shape with just one known regression with respect to
> > libart/gnomeprint/svg renderers 
> > ( see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341993 ). It even adds
> > some nice additionnal features like mutiline labels in svg export,
> > pretty log axis labels, and ps/pdf export.
> >
> > This would also allow me to use the new GOPalette/GOSelector widgets.
> > They're prettier than GOCombo, use less code, support drag and drop and
> > make switching objects in guru dialog snappier (and with a bit of work,
> > it will be possible to replace completely GOCombo and derivated
> > widgets).
> >
> > This new dependency can be added without requiring a newer version of
> > gtk+, which means we can keep gtk+ 2.6 (That's better for the maemo port
> > of gnumeric, where gtk+ > 2.6 is not possible yet).
> >
> > If it's ok, I'll change configure file in order to add a hard dependency
> > to cairo 1.2.0 (which is a version with acceptable ps/pdf/svg backends).
>
> Really, no comment ?
>
> I'll make the change this week-end then.
>
> (Additionnal precision: I don't plan to touch the current gog-renderer
> system, at least until we have a cairo printing support for gnumeric
> itself).

and, please, for abiword too.

Jean