gtk print dialog and OOo
by Caolán McNamara
We've supported a gtk print dialog integration in OOo for a while, but
there has always been a few little gotchas, and now that the "built-in"
OOo dialog has some nifty extras there are extra gotchas. So I'll be
reverting to the "built-in" dialog for F11, a quick dump of the gotchas
are..
*) Need an extra "Selection" option for printing.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344519
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563619
OOo can print just the selected text, selected graphic or selected
cells, but no way to show that in the gtk print dialog.
*) Way to specify the page size and orientation (esp. when using n-up
printing)
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=551409
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=551726
Most OpenOffice.org applications have per-page orientations rather than
global per print-job orientation, but when printing multiple pages in
one sheet of paper through cups, its desirable to have a way to specify
the orientation and page size of the combined sheet. We could do this
with a custom tab, but see next entry
*) Emit a signal when a printer is selected.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=564854
So e.g. a custom tab that should only exist for say, printing to a cups
backend, or using save as .pdf file can be shown/hidden depending on the
printer selection, e.g. pdf encryption options or pdf "read-only except
for filling in fields" directives which only make sense in a save
as .pdf context. Hackable around with nasty switch-page callback on the
notebook widget if you rummage around horrifically through the dialog
hierarchy looking for it.
*) Spreadsheet printing
No "All Sheets", "Selected Sheets" in addition to the pages options for
spreadsheets that may have multiple sheets each of which can span
multiple pages. "Page 1 of 2 sheets selected out of 3 sheets in total".
Could do a gnumeric and do this in a custom tab though
*) Presentation printing
Want to select notes, or outline, or handouts. Could do this in a custom
tab though.
14 years, 9 months
Epiphany 2.28 and webkitgtk
by Martin Sourada
Hi all,
the WebKit GTK port, webkitgtk, has gained some momentum during the
Fedora 11 development and it looks like it might be ready for being
default in Epiphany 2.28 [1]. And so I though it might be worth tracking
this change and helping with testing for Fedora 12 (I have been already
testing webkitgtk in midori and I can see it has improved *a lot* during
the past few months and much more improvements will come in the next
release as well).
Because this falls under the Desktop SIG 'reign', I thought I'd contact
you first, even before trying to sketch some feature page, to see what
are your positions regarding this change. Do we have some specific use
cases that we consider a must-have for epiphany being ship with WebKit
back-end in Fedora in addition to those outlined at the upstream
tracking page[1] (ability to authenticate to koji web interface [2]
springs to mind)? Are there any general concerns about using WebKit over
XULRunner in Epiphany in Fedora?
On a similar note, perhaps worth a different thread in -devel list,
webkitgtk supports (more or less functionally from my experience)
browser plug-ins using the NP API (swfdec-mozilla,
java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin, totem-mozplugin, etc). These are usually put
into -mozplugin or -mozilla subpackages. I am not sure how much of sense
this makes when these are actually used both in mozilla based and webkit
based (IIRC the QT port of WebKit supports them as well) applications
and as such the mozilla suffix does not make much sense. Perhaps
-(web)browser-plugin would be a better suffix?
Thanks,
Martin
References:
[1] http://live.gnome.org/Epiphany/WebKit228
[2] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/
14 years, 12 months
Open source and diagramming survey
by chung＠engr.orst.edu
Dear open source contributors,
I am Eunyoung Chung, a Masters student working with Dr. Jensen at
Oregon State University.
We are currently doing a research project in collaboration with Dr.
Truong and Ph.D student Koji Yatani at University of Toronto. Our goal
is to understand how contributors communicate and collaborate in Open
Source Software (OSS) projects, including diagramming practices.
We are seeking volunteers for a quick survey on this topic. Any person
who is actively working on a OSS project is eligible. The survey takes
approximately 10-15 minutes, and the 5 volunteers will be picked to
receive a $30 Amazon gift certificate. Your participation is anonymous
(unless you consent to have us contact you)
Here is the survey address.
https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/limesurvey/58564/lang-en
We really appreciate your help!
14 years, 12 months
Empathy feature
by Jon Stanley
This will be a topic at tomorrow's FESCo meeting, for whoever is
interested. The feature owner is listed as this list,. and I didn't
see my notification from Trac in the archives, so figured that I'd
manually tell the list.
14 years, 12 months
Replacing Tomboy with Gnote in Fedora GNOME group
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi,
I just packaged and pushed in Gnote, a a port of Tomboy to C++ for
rawhide (and Fedora 10), a couple of days back. Gnote is compatible with
Tomboy and you can just cp .tomboy to .gnote and use the notes. The user
interface is exactly the same.
The default GNOME group includes Tomboy which pulls in a considerably
large number of dependencies. A quick test on a system pulls in 34 MB
worth of dependencies (including 4.6 MB for Tomboy alone), while a
install of Gnote pulls in just 582kb (I have not counted gtkmm since it
is already required by gnome-system-monitor). Tomboy is not installed on
the live cd already due to lack of space. Perhaps we can squeeze in
Gnote as a replacement for Tomboy in the Fedora GNOME group?
As a side note, anyone interested in gnote, feel free to sign-up as
co-maintainers.
Rahul
----
# yum install tomboy
=================================================================================================================================
Package Arch Version
Repository Size
=================================================================================================================================
Installing:
tomboy x86_64 0.14.0-2.fc11
rawhide 4.6 M
Installing for dependencies:
gnome-desktop-sharp x86_64 2.24.0-3.fc10
rawhide 211 k
gnome-sharp x86_64 2.24.0-3.fc11
rawhide 326 k
gtk-sharp2 x86_64 2.12.7-4.fc11
rawhide 817 k
mono-addins x86_64
0.4-5.20091702svn127062.1.fc11 rawhide 483 k
mono-core x86_64 2.4-9.RC1.fc11
rawhide 11 M
mono-data x86_64 2.4-9.RC1.fc11
rawhide 1.5 M
mono-data-sqlite x86_64 2.4-9.RC1.fc11
rawhide 157 k
mono-extras x86_64 2.4-9.RC1.fc11
rawhide 1.4 M
mono-web x86_64 2.4-9.RC1.fc11
rawhide 3.1 M
mono-winforms x86_64 2.4-9.RC1.fc11
rawhide 3.0 M
monodoc x86_64 2.4-9.RC1.fc11
rawhide 7.3 M
ndesk-dbus x86_64 0.6.1a-4.fc11
rawhide 52 k
ndesk-dbus-glib x86_64 0.4.1-4.fc11
rawhide 11 k
Transaction Summary
=================================================================================================================================
Install 14 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)
Total download size: 34 M
----
# yum install gnote
=================================================================================================================================
Package Arch Version
Repository Size
=================================================================================================================================
Installing:
gnote x86_64 0.1.1-4.fc11
rawhide 492 k
Installing for dependencies:
libxml++ x86_64 2.24.2-2.fc11
rawhide 90 k
Transaction Summary
=================================================================================================================================
Install 2 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)
Total download size: 582 k
15 years
Updating the gnome-software-development group in comps
by Matthias Clasen
I recently noticed that the gnome-software-development group in comps
has some things in the default install that should probably be relegated
to optional nowadays:
eel2-devel
libgnomeprintui22-devel
libart_lgpl-devel
are the immediate candidates.
And glade2 should probably be replaced by glade3.
If nobody objects violently, I'll make these changes later this week.
Matthias
15 years
getting kernel panics with f11 beta...
by J L
Hi all,
new to this list, and I'm hoping not to get shot down...
I've installed the f11 beta (kde version) from cd on to a T40 laptop (old Pentium M at 1.5Ghz)... 512 Megs RAM
I have had extreme delays (like 3+ hours to install), and even 30+ minutes to boot from CD on this system... not sure if it was a CD/DVD driver issue or what...
In any case, the install worked after much patience,
then I did update the system with yum...
in both cases, before and after the update, I'm getting consistent kernel panics, which I have sent back for analysis.
Also, I'm getting some weird graphics 'melt downs' over time, what happens is 'fuzzy' / 'dirty' graphics are progressively happening mostly on window borders/title areas, and it seems to get worse over time.
If you would like a screenshot, I could provide one... but basically, imagine a non-linear type corruption which would turn an otherwise monochromatic background section of a title bar into a dual or tri-colored pattern...
I have run low level diagnostics on this system, and a full memory test which shows no errors.
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