Desktop Developer Conference debriefing
by hub, Thursday 21 July 2005 at 11:46 :: AbiWord :: #257 :: rss
Back from Ottawa and Desktop Developer Conference. I now have my head full of nice ideas for AbiWord, some crazy, some less:
Use UniConf for the preferences. This would be more a proof of concept and a toy to play with than a real feature for AbiWord. I don't see that very hard to do. Add that to my crazyness.
Write a Cairo backend for AbiWord. This is more sane, and somewhat a big work, but it is good crack. Here are the reasons:
Pro:
- one backend for Mac, Win and Gtk. Bug will be down to Cairo and not to each platform...
- SVG support will be way easier. We need SVG support.
Cons:
- Cairo maturity. But if nobody use it, who will test it ? AbiWord pioneered with XML for the file format.
- One more dependency, which seems to be a concern for win32 developers. Nothing that can't be solved.
- Performance. Again, that will give a real test case.
And I think I'll move my Gtk+-MacOS X work in gtk+-2.7 branch (I mean rebranch from there) to use Cairo as well. Now it makes sense.
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Thursday 21 July 2005 11:58, by Tomasz Torcz :: site :: #
Thursday 21 July 2005 16:02, by Per :: #
Thursday 21 July 2005 16:39, by hub :: #
Friday 22 July 2005 04:15, by Dave Burnett :: site :: #
Friday 22 July 2005 10:48, by Stuart Parmenter :: site :: #
Saturday 1 October 2005 01:34, by n8gray :: site :: #
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