On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 14:19 +1000, Jens Petersen wrote: > Ok, probably not very technically accurate, but I was thinking of the > custom gtk widgets and gtkhtml that Evolution uses. That's a valid point and it's an issue I've been trying to chip away at since landing this gig. Evolution has a lot of old cruft underneath the hood and still relies on technology that fell out favor years ago. Examples: - GtkHTML -- Evolution's HTML rendering library -- is no longer under active development. - Parts of Evolution's UI look like something out of the Motif era. - It's still heavily dependent on the GNOME Applications Library, a library that never gained much popularity and Evolution eventually subsumed. - Don't even get me started about Bonobo. Here's what I'm doing about each of them: - Alp Toker and I have talked about a possible migration to WebKit/GTK+. WebKit/GTK+ still lacks an editing API and adequate printing support, among other things, but looks very promising. I've begun prototyping code but it's still in a very early stage. - I've been aggressively moving Evolution off deprecated and custom widgets to modern GTK+ widgets. Still much more work to be done. - Chipping away at the GNOME Applications Library. Slow going. - I'm in the midst of rewriting Evolution's message composer to not rely on Bonobo. Once done, I plan to use those results as a blueprint for moving the rest of Evolution off Bonobo. I hope to start this last phase by year's end. I also have to say Evolution development seems more active and positive now than I think it has been in years. That's a good sign. Matthew Barnes -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
