I've been running gnumeric 1.7.8 (non-gnome build) very happily for some time. I recently tried updating to 1.7.11, but that version was broken for non-gnome use, so I went to current svn.
I've built gnumeric OK, but print preview doesn't work because it's looking for evince, which is not installed on my system. I started along the line of installing evince, but this introduces a big stack of dependencies, including gnome-icon-theme, gnome-vfs and gnome-keyring-1, and then at one remove, poppler-glib, libgcrypt, libgpg-error, etc, etc. With gnumeric 1.7.8 one could get print preview via libgnomeprint, which, despite having "gnome" in its name, was very light in terms of its further dependencies. I realize that most people who use gnumeric will have a full gnome installation, but I'd like to register a mild protest. To build in a dependency on evince, which is a full-featured program with a substantial stack of dependencies in its own right -- most of which have nothing at all to do with printing from gnumeric -- seems like a retrograde step to me. Assuming, that is, that part of the object is to make the excellent gnumeric available to as wide a range of users as possible. (I'm not usually too bothered whether print preview is available or not, but in the case of printing a spreadsheet, where things can easily go badly wrong, it's very helpful, if it works right.) Allin Cottrell -- Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University, NC _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
