On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Matthew Barnes <mbar...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 17:20 +0200, Dan Vratil wrote: >> as I already mentioned on the IRC meeting, embedding widgets into WebKit >> is broken and I was told that WebKit-Gtk developers intend to drop this >> functionality sooner or later. > > Citation needed. Xan Lopez said he wasn't aware of any problems or > plans to drop the API when I asked him about this after the IRC meeting, > and the bug you opened includes a comment with a possible solution: > > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63451 > > >> So I decided to go similar way Anjal >> does, splitting the email display into multiple webviews. To be able to >> do so, I also decided to change the way EMFormat works as well. > > IIRC, Srini told me told me at the Boston Summit last year that this > approach for Anjal was fine for display but derailed when it came time > to print. > > > Maybe Srini can comment further? (CC'ing him) >
It isn't simple for printing. But you can work it around by supporting only the needed file types. In any case see if we can get a top window cairo handle and print it to a printable surface. It should be much easier and match what the user sees. If we can do anjal like webkit rendering, it is very simple to get a conversation view into evolution. I could pull pieces from anjal and build it for evolution. [...] > Don't get me wrong, the design you're proposing sounds sensible _if_ you > can overcome the printing issue. I'm just pointing out the known speed > bumps on this road. > This is the most appropriate approach I felt for anjal, since Webkit then didn't have embedded gtk objects. IIRC newer webkit supports it. Worth a try to see if it is feasible to consider that. One thing I can say is that, this will be faster than the earlier method, for reason that even when we expand one attachment/mail, we rerender the entire mail and remember their previous states etc which is sort-a ugly. This approach only deals with the MIME part that you expand/hide and very simple and fast. -Srini _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers mailing list evolution-hackers@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
