[Sugar-devel] Goocanvas as alternative to Hippo?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:21:48AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 09:56, Simon Schampijer<simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
>> On 06/12/2009 08:06 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://ubuntutesting.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/mago-a-desktop-testing-initiative/
>>>
>>> Once we switch unnecessary usage of hippo and add some hooks to it, 
>>> we'll be able to use the same infrastructure.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Tomeu
>>
>> Nice! You mean get rid of hippo completely? Or just replace the 
>> unnecessary usage of hippo and add hooks to hippo for the other parts 
>> to be able to use Mago?
>
>Well, if we could replace hippo completely with something maintained
>by someone else, would be great. But just reducing its usage and
>implementing some AT-SPI hooks might be enough for now.
>
>Of course, that would help as well with accessibility.

I have absolutely no understanding of what hippo does, except from its 
package description in Debian, but is this perhaps a worthy alternative: 
http://live.gnome.org/GooCanvas

It has Python binding. :-)

Here's a sceptical blog entry about it: 
http://www.murrayc.com/blog/permalink/2007/10/11/goocanvas-experiences/



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