<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sridhar@laptop.org.au">sridhar@laptop.org.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 3 June 2011 22:01, Gonzalo Odiard <<a href="mailto:gonzalo@laptop.org">gonzalo@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> Evince (the library used to read PDF) has changed the interface too, then<br>
> does not have sense support the old toolbar.<br>
<br>
</div>I don't think I understand - how do the toolbars in Evince affect the<br>
Read activity? Doesn't Read just use the Evince libraries and not the<br>
Evince GUI?<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div><br>No. I means if we supported the old toolbar, Read activity will not work anyway<br>because the Evince library has changed.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">
> May be in a few months you can update to 11.2 and use a lot of new features,<br>
<br>
</div>Updating thousands of XOs scattered across our 7.6m km^2 continent is<br>
not a task to be taken lightly. We cannot upgrade them all without<br>
some serious planning, and we aren't going to do so just for an<br>
activity. No doubt, other deployments face similar challenges.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>Yes, I understand it. <br>In most cases, I try to provide backward compatibility. In this case, we have new functionality<br>for example text to speech, enabled by packages included in the os.<br>
Then supporting old/new toolbar, new/old evince and wth/without text to speech<br>does the code and the testing a nightmare.<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Are there any technical limitations in making this activity run on the<br>
current OLPC OS?<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>No. If you want sent patches to add compatibility, I can review them.<br> </div>Gonzalo<br></div>