Many features from the gnome platform will move into the next major version of GTK anyways. More information is available at project ridley:
Reading over that list, it seems more than enough to accomodate Abiword without having to install additional gnome libes.
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GTK is just a toolkit, based on a powerful C object language (glib). Compared to QT, GTK and GLIB together aren't that powerful. The GNOME platform makes a good addition to it, but not every part is integrated good enough for use outside of GNOME.
]]>libgnomecanvas, libgnomeprint, libgnomeprintui, gnome-icon-theme, hicolor-icon-theme... Are those few libs too much?
Yeah, but I'm going to predict here and now that as Abiword becomes more Gnome-ish, there will be additional Gnome libs/files required. Having already been the Gnome and KDE route, I'm trying to stay as clear of them as possible.
Surely printing under Linux will remain possible without Gnome and/or KDE... or at least I certainly hope so.
]]>JGC wrote:Future versions of Abiword will get compiled against these libs, as there's no option to do without it in the future.
Ouch... hopefully there's some good alternative available to take it's place. I'm one of those "no G-stuff on my box" guys you mentioned. At any rate, I'm keeping a copy of Abiword 2.2.9 on hand just in case.
libgnomecanvas, libgnomeprint, libgnomeprintui, gnome-icon-theme, hicolor-icon-theme... Are those few libs too much? I'd rather have working printer support than getting rid of those libs on my system. The abiword developers think the same about it.
]]>You probably need to recompile abiword with the correct configure option so it uses libgnomeprintui.
Bingo. That was it. Thanks! Just add
--enable-gnome
to the configure stuff in the PKBUILD (both abi and plugins sections) and make the package and install.
]]>Future versions of Abiword will get compiled against these libs, as there's no option to do without it in the future.
Ouch... hopefully there's some good alternative available to take it's place. I'm one of those "no G-stuff on my box" guys you mentioned. At any rate, I'm keeping a copy of Abiword 2.2.9 on hand just in case.
]]>Heh, that's the problem with most of our users, they don't want G-stuff on their system. The nice dialogue you were seeing on debian comes from libgnomeprintui. Future versions of Abiword will get compiled against these libs, as there's no option to do without it in the future.
Too bad people rather not have gnome libraries on their system than working printing support.
Hmmm...I just installed all of gnome with
pacman -S gnome
and I still can't print with Abiword and still don't see that print gui, even if I load gnome itself. I checked to make sure libgnomeprintui is installed, and it is.
]]>Too bad people rather not have gnome libraries on their system than working printing support.
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