On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 3 June 2011 22:01, Gonzalo Odiard <[email protected]> wrote: > > Evince (the library used to read PDF) has changed the interface too, then > > does not have sense support the old toolbar. > > I don't think I understand - how do the toolbars in Evince affect the > Read activity? Doesn't Read just use the Evince libraries and not the > Evince GUI? > > No. I means if we supported the old toolbar, Read activity will not work anyway because the Evince library has changed. > > May be in a few months you can update to 11.2 and use a lot of new > features, > > Updating thousands of XOs scattered across our 7.6m km^2 continent is > not a task to be taken lightly. We cannot upgrade them all without > some serious planning, and we aren't going to do so just for an > activity. No doubt, other deployments face similar challenges. > > Yes, I understand it. In most cases, I try to provide backward compatibility. In this case, we have new functionality for example text to speech, enabled by packages included in the os. Then supporting old/new toolbar, new/old evince and wth/without text to speech does the code and the testing a nightmare. > Are there any technical limitations in making this activity run on the > current OLPC OS? > > No. If you want sent patches to add compatibility, I can review them. Gonzalo
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