Re: [gtk-list] Re: Gnome/GtkCanvas (was Re: gtk_args_collect & gnome--)
- From: KC5TJA <kc5tja topaz axisinternet com>
- To: "Shawn T . Amundson" <amundson gimp org>
- cc: gtk-list redhat com
- Subject: Re: [gtk-list] Re: Gnome/GtkCanvas (was Re: gtk_args_collect & gnome--)
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 16:29:38 -0700 (PDT)
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Shawn T . Amundson wrote:
> The best way to do this is to make GNOME look nice and list those
> real features, not by this type of combining-products marketing.
>
> The great part about UNIX is its built on a large number of little
> utilities that do things well. GTK+ does the toolkit part well.
>
> Imagine if you still had to download and install GIMP to get GTK+!
Worse, JUST BECAUSE Gnome has a really cool Canvas widget, imagine having
to download Gnome just to use the later versions of GIMP and/or any of its
extensions!!
> > On top of that, I want to add some form of font rendering and
> > postscript printing to the Canvas. Of course, this will include some
> > default font setup and some default font policies, and those will be
> > part of the Gnome framework.
Have you considered adding any type of print services BESIDES Postscript?
Postscript is relatively rare among those of us who can't afford
enterprise-level Laserjets, ya know...
How about WYSIWYG output on HP Office Jets? Cannon bubble-jets? My
crappy 24-pin dot matrix printer (that still works great!)? Without the
use of enormous memory hogging Postscript interpretters? I can go and get
a cheap laser printer that understands HPGL, but is incapable of
supporting Postscript, for well under $500.
This is perhaps the NUMBER ONE reason why Linux isn't used for serious
desktop productivity right now -- it can't print! What's presented on the
screen is one thing -- that has already been mastered. Now let's start to
tackle the paper output side of things.
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