gnomeprint deperecated

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

gnomeprint is deprecated. GtkPrint should be used instead.

[Mystilleef (mystilleef)]

That's correct. I wonder what version of GTK has a stable version of GtkPrint. Maybe Scribes should depend on the latest stable release of GTK+/PyGTK at the time of release. The bad thing about this is that it's going exclude a lot of users who are using older versions of GTK+/PyGTK.

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

According to http://library.gnome.org/devel/pygtk/stable/, gtk.Print* are available since 2.10.

Debian Lenny (stable) has 2.12.
Ubuntu Hardy (LTS) has 2.12 too.

I think it's time to move forward and simply require PyGTK 2.10 :)

[Mystilleef (mystilleef)]

I agree. Or even 2.12.

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

python-gnomeprint is going to be removed from Debian soon, so this will be an issue then...

[Mystilleef (mystilleef)]

Scribes is going to use gtk.Print for 0.4

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

Mystilleef wrote:
> Scribes is going to use gtk.Print for 0.4

Cool. Is there a timeline for 0.4?

[Mystilleef (mystilleef)]

Tentatively, the summer of 2010

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

Mystilleef wrote:
> Tentatively, the summer of 2010

Hmm that's too late for us. We are already using bzr snapshots as 0.3.x was too
old and buggy, so if this was fixed soon I could package a new snapshot with the
fix :)

[Mystilleef (mystilleef)]

Okay, I'll make this top priority. I'll look into implementing this next.

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

Has there been any progress on the port by any chance?

[Mystilleef (mystilleef)]

There has not been any progress. I've been very busy with other projects. Someone promised to work on this. I'll check with him to see how things are coming.

[Mystilleef (mystilleef)]

I have preliminary printing support ready. Should be in build 525. I'll push to launchpad shortly. Sorry for the long delay.

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

Great work. I look forward to see the final commit that removes the gnomeprint imports from scribes :)

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

I saw there was some printing job on trunk. Was it finally finished? And if not, is there a lot of work remaining?

[Mystilleef (mystilleef)]

Yeah, I think printing is complete. If you have a problems let me know. Thanks.

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

Ah cool! I guess the check for gnomeprint can be removed from depcheck.py then, and this bug can be closed.

Thanks for porting scribes!

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

Actually the whole gnome-python-desktop check can be removed, it seems scribes doesn't use any gnome-python-desktop module anymore.

[Mystilleef (mystilleef)]

It think the depencies for scribes are

-- python-dbus
-- pygtk,
-- python-gtksourceview2
-- python-gtkspell (Enchant very soon)

So we don't need the python-gnome-* packages anymore, I think.

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

That sounds right. Thus the checks for python-gnome and python-gnome-desktop can be removed (and the gnome check in CommandLineInfo.py). See attached patches.