On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 09:36 +0200, Simon Schampijer wrote: > > Write, Read, TamTam, Paint, Record, Memorize to name a few have been > really struggling lately. There are probably various reasons for that > - one might be I that the activities have been taken out from the base > system another one that the overall development has been really fast > and no entry points/good documentation could be found. And well, the > windows news were not helpful either.
You are missing 'funding': Most of Write's development was funded by OLPC, which gave us what we have today. Expecting volunteers to hack on Write is unrealistic at this point. Let me clarify: Write is written in Python and uses the pyabiword bindings around AbiWord's GTK canvas widget extensively. The GTK widget and pyabiword bindings were extended as I went along, to expose the functionality Write needed. Currently almost 100% of pyabiword's functionality is used by Write. What this means is that if Write needs new feature X, it will almost always require new functionality to be exposed through pyabiword *and* AbiWord's GTK canvas widget. This will generally be too hard for volunteers who just want to spend a few hours hacking on something fun. Cheers, Marc _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar