Re: RFC: Merging cairo-integration into trunk

From: J.M. Maurer <uwog_at_uwog.net>
Date: Sat Dec 27 2008 - 00:46:05 CET

On Sat, 2008-12-27 at 10:32 +1100, Martin Sevior wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I would like to merge the cairo-integration branch
> into TRUNK. I have already made a number of fixes to the rendering
> code in trunk and I'm likely to make some more soon. Rob has done a
> great job with cairo-integration and at the present time the branch
> mostly mostly works but has some selection dirt issues and does not
> have printing.
>
> The selection dirt issues may be the result of cumulative cruft in the
> rendering code in src/text/fmt/xp/*.
>
> So I'd like to attack these in trunk with cairo and fix them all.
>
> After that we can get printing working ASAP.
>
> I'm very frustrated with gnome-print and would like to move to the
> support for printing we get from Cairo. We also get to use jean's
> great work in gnome-office and we will finally have gnumeric workbooks
> in abiword.
>
> Do others have opinions about this?

"Go for it++" I'd say,

  Marc
Received on Sat Dec 27 00:46:11 2008

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