From: Sven Neumann <sven@xxxxxxxx> Date: 25 May 2004 11:19:10 +0200 your post (and other mails on the gimp-print-devel list) make me believe that there isn't much hope for a stable gimp-print API to appear during the next weeks. Is that right? This means that we have to change our plan to ship gimp-2.2 with an updated print plug-in. It also means that we need to apply the latest user interface changes to the print plug-in also. So far we haven't touched it since it was scheduled for replacement. The core API's pretty close, but we're probably not quite ready to go beta. However, we're not that far off, either. What's your plan for 2.2? This also brings up a problematic point about libgimprint-gtk2. Such a library that includes the complete GUI will make it impossible for us to have a print plug-in with a user interface that is consistent with the rest of the GIMP UI. Of course you could adapt our user interface guidelines (which are basically the HIG with some twists) but we could always change our mind on this with the next GIMP release (just like we just did, GIMP-2.2 will look different than GIMP-2.0). Also other projects using this library might have other ideas about the look and feel. So you can't possibly get it right for everyone unless you use lots of style properties to make every aspect of the GUI themable. Good point. I hadn't thought about that aspect of it; I was looking at it from the Gimp-Print side. Perhaps it would be better to not have the actual user interface in a gimpprint library. If you want to make it easy to write a GTK2 GUI on top of libgimpprint, then you could provide a model on top of libgimpprint that people can easily write a view for. This library could provides GtkListStores for any selection the user needs to make, it could provide a preview widget to position the image on the paper. Basically it would just nicely wrap the libgimpprint API and make it more GTK+ friendly. That would be a possibility. -- Robert Krawitz <rlk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail lpf@xxxxxxxxxxxx Project lead for Gimp Print -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton
