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* http://www.gnome.org/~alexl/presentations/guadec2006-printing.pdf#search=%22gtk%2B%20printing%20API%22 | * http://www.gnome.org/~alexl/presentations/guadec2006-printing.pdf#search=%22gtk%2B%20printing%20API%22 | ||
* http://www.j5live.com/?p=204 | * http://www.j5live.com/?p=204 | ||
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| + | === Python Bindings === | ||
| + | Python bindings seem to be a commonly requested feature. [[User:Mickey] says, "They are kind of usable on the 770, but it's at the lower end of being bearable. We should keep this in mind -- Gtk+ already comes with Python Bindings, so we "just" would need to wrap libmoko*. I would prefer to leave this to the community do though, since it doesn't make sense to start wrapping the API until we have a stable API -- and I can imagine it will take us a couple of months after going open until we can start with stabilizing the libmoko API." | ||
Revision as of 03:56, 11 September 2006
This article is a place to collect various thoughts about OpenMoko.
Software Related
Printing Support
It would be really neat to be able to print over either bluetooth or USB. I could imagine wanted to print:
- Notes
- Maps
- Calendars
- ...
Cups contains a bluetooth printing backend, so (in theory) once you have your data in postscript format, you could hand it to cups and it'll do the rest. In practice, it depends on
- GTK+'s printing support
- Making cups run on a really small system
{{note| GTK+'s printing support seems to be very immature in 2.6 (which we need to use for some time). Gtk+ 2.10 contains much better printing support -- once we can use this, it should be more easy.
There's always the possibility to render postscript ourselves, but this is not a piece of cake -- in general, printing is much harder than one would imagine.
Further details:
- http://groups.osdl.org/apps/group_public/download.php/2205/print-summit-gtk.pdf#search=%22gtk%2B%20printing%20API%22
- http://www.gnome.org/~alexl/presentations/guadec2006-printing.pdf#search=%22gtk%2B%20printing%20API%22
- http://www.j5live.com/?p=204
Python Bindings
Python bindings seem to be a commonly requested feature. [[User:Mickey] says, "They are kind of usable on the 770, but it's at the lower end of being bearable. We should keep this in mind -- Gtk+ already comes with Python Bindings, so we "just" would need to wrap libmoko*. I would prefer to leave this to the community do though, since it doesn't make sense to start wrapping the API until we have a stable API -- and I can imagine it will take us a couple of months after going open until we can start with stabilizing the libmoko API."
