[CREATE] Open WG on Complex Text Layout in Scribus

[Camille Bissuel]

Thanks for the explanation Andreas ;)

It's your decision as a team, and I understand it's not that easy, but
maybe it's time to get rid of the "old mess" and say the 1.5 release +
finishing properties palette rewrite (what's left ?) is 1.6 stable, and
your Complex Text Layout branch may deserve it's brand new shiny 1.7 number
;)
Sadly 1.5 as is will not reach many users.

And think to those poor Debian users, not able to enter accented characters
in canvas before version 10 ("Squizzy") ! (Sorry, this troll was too
tempting :p)

Anyway, do you best !
Cheers,
Camille



2015-05-18 18:52 GMT+02:00 Andreas Vox <avox at arcor.de>:

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> Von: Camille Bissuel [mailto:camille at nylnook.com]
> Gesendet: Montag, 18. Mai 2015 17:16
> An: Andreas Vox
> Cc: Create
> Betreff: Re: [CREATE] Open WG on Complex Text Layout in Scribus
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> Hi Andreas,
> and first of all, bravo ! It's a very important goal !
> I will not be able to help on code side... but as a Scribus user and
> teacher, my first question is : why not release Scribus in version 1.6
> before to start such a big and complex integration project ?
> I'm afraid users will have to wait 3 more years for a Scribus stable
> release if we wait for this Harfbuzz integration... Not this is not useful
> and needed, but as we already discussed at Madrid (LGM2013 !) I'd
> personally hope for a more "release early/release often" politic in Scribus
> development. Maybe moving to git as ale advocated is another way.
>
> Thanks for you great work anyways ;)
> Camille
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>
> Hi Camille,
>
> I'm afraid that won't work. Most of the stuff I like to do relies on large
> changes to the code base and it's just no fun to work with the old mess.
> Personally, I won't get involved with the properties palette rewrite --
> that would be the other chunk of work that's on our todo list. This way
> I hope the CTL team and the other devs can work in parallel. In fact, in
> theory it would be possible to release 1.6 after any of the milestones I
> outlined,
> so we don't necessarily have to wait on the CTL stuff.
>
> BTW, a lot of the smaller bugs will be fixed in the 1.5.0 release, last
> not least the possibility to enter accented characters in canvas.
>
> /Andreas
>
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