On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, James Henstridge wrote:
> Now if we add i18n and different to the mix, this is even more difficult
> to do correctly. If we were going to change the print/font system of dia
> radically, I would probably lean toward using one of the libraries that
> already exist (such as gnome-print). Yes this means another library, but
> it means less system configuration required than if dia had its own
> handling.
Yes, i agree. This is a problem far to hard to solve on an application to
application basis. We must try to get the Linux/unix world to standardize
on something.
Maybe this is the time to drop non-gnome support and go into a development
phase were we intergrate Gnome support tighter. Gnome-print would
be required. We could also look into libart_lgpl and bonobo. This could be
pretty destabilizing to Dia though, because a lot of these libraries are
not finished, and a lot of dia stuff would need to be rewritten.
I've gotta take a look on libart and gnome-print soon...
/ Alex
