Re: gnomeprint dependencies?

David Gómez wrote:

>Hi,
>
>On Oct 12 at 02:29:22, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
>
>
>>gnomeprint is a requirement now.
>>
>>gnomeprint does not depend on gnome.
>>
>>
>
>I needed to install, in order to be able to compile abiword 2.4:
>
>libgnomeprint
>libgnomeprintui
>libgnomecanvas
>gnome-icon-themes
>hicolor-icon-theme
>
>To say that these aren't gnome dependencies, well... Seeing this, I hope than
>in future versions abiword doesn't become a gnome application :-/
>
>Thanks for your help,
>
>David
>
>
>
The reason the libgnomeprint dependency was added was because it allows
for much more accurate and reliable printing. Without it, the AbiWord
developers also had to maintain a custom PostScript output routine,
which was problematic. Hence why it's being phased out - libgnomeprint
also gives us PDF output with little additional code. Don't worry, the
AbiWord developers understand that part of the appeal of AbiWord is its
small footprint and lightweight dependencies.

I personally would double-check and make sure those icon themes are
strictly necessary - I haven't much experience compiling Abi on anything
but a GNOME workstation and Windows, but from what I've heard, only the
gnomeprint (and therefore gnomecanvas) are required (and that is an
extremely small bit of GNOME that would do well to become
cross-environment, at least based on its user experience).

Ryan
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Received on Thu Oct 13 15:56:53 2005