From: Dave Malcolm (david@davemalcolm.demon.co.uk)
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 06:42:36 EDT
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 07:36, Luca Padovani wrote:
> Dear AbiWord developers,
>
> at last I've found a student who's going to bonobo-ize gtkmathview, my
> widget for MathML rendering/editing. Among the several advantages of
> making a component out of the widget is the possibility of using it in
> AbiWord for rendering math fragments. I had a discussion on this with
> Martin a long time ago, but none of us ever had the time and resources
> to invest on this, until now.
This is great news, and of interest to me for Conglomerate, the free
user-friendly XML editor I maintain.
I'd like to discuss all the technical aspects, but I'm in the middle of
a complete rewrite of my core rendering widget, so I'm a bit bogged down
at the moment :-( So this mainly just a "hi" message to let you know
that I'd be another potential user of this work.
>
> I've been collecting info on bonobo in the last few days, and have to
> say the situation is rather confusing (to me). Most of the documentation
> seems to be out-of-date, and there's no list of gtk widgets already
> bonobo-ized that we could take as examples of "good practice". I found
> ggv which seems to be very well done. Apart from that, it's not clear
> how many of the several neat features of bonobo are really
> implemented/implementable, and how many are just cool things written in
> an HTML page. Now, given that bonobo support has been investigated in
> AbiWord, I was wondering if you have any suggestions on how to proceed
> so that the development would eventually converge into something that
> can be effectively usable. What are the bonobo interfaces we are
> supposed to implement? What is the most valuable source of information
> for bonobo-related things that you have studied or at least taken into
> account?
>
> I will contact shortly the guys on the gnome-components m.l. with
> similar questions, I basically wanted to let you know that something is
> happening.
>
> Yours,
> -- luca
-- David Malcolm www.conglomerate.org
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