Re: [Xournal-devel] Dev status and how-to start?

2013-11-18 Thread Denis Auroux
Dear all, My take on the confusion about future plans and the various branches is as follows: - Confusion for "users": One should be aware that none of the people in this discussion, and probably none of the people reading this mailing-list, are just plain "users". A "user" is someone who mo

Re: [Xournal-devel] Dev status and how-to start?

2013-11-18 Thread Shuhao Wu
One thing about reliability: I've not had xournal crash on me a lot. I think there may be once. However, the lack of a recovery feature is concerning. If there is recovery, crashes are less problematic. Cheers, Shuhao On 11/18/2013 09:52 AM, Wilson Brenna wrote: > I'll add that I didn't mention

Re: [Xournal-devel] Dev status and how-to start?

2013-11-18 Thread Wilson Brenna
I'll add that I didn't mention reliability and that I completely agree - I've never had a crash with Denis' Xournal, it's extremely stable. The current state of Xournalpp is that crashes are less and less common but still occur. When I started looking at the code, there were a few bugs in copy/past

Re: [Xournal-devel] Dev status and how-to start?

2013-11-18 Thread Shuhao Wu
So yeah that's what I figured as well. It seems like everyone has their own fork. While that seems to be beauty of opensource, this is just confusing and bad for the end users. There are a lot of improvements that could be made to xournal, a lot of which are already implemented. We should really

Re: [Xournal-devel] Dev status and how-to start?

2013-11-18 Thread Wilson Brenna
Hi Daniel, I think that's probably because Ubuntu 13.10 has a new version of poppler and so it needs the addpoppler hack because newer poppler packages don't include the header files xournalpp uses. If you checkout the addpoppler branch and compile that, hopefully that will work (sometimes autotoo

Re: [Xournal-devel] Dev status and how-to start?

2013-11-18 Thread D M German
Wilson> Xournalpp is written in C++ while Xournal is written in C :) They are very Wilson> different code-wise. In terms of feature sets, I'm not sure what the Wilson> current state of Xournal is feature-wise and how far it's gone since hi Wilson I downloaded xournapp and tried to compile

Re: [Xournal-devel] Dev status and how-to start?

2013-11-18 Thread D M German
I would like my $0.02, adding to what has been said. Denis Auroux twisted the bytes to say: Denis> There are basically two different things: xournal, and xournal++ Denis> (xournalpp). Denis> Xournal was written in C using GTK2. Its code base is stable, but is Denis> not evolving very f