[Sugar-devel] Goocanvas as alternative to Hippo?

[Bobby Powers]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Jonas Smedegaard<dr at jones.dk> wrote:
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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:
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>>>>
>>>> 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/

I used goocanvas (through the python bindings) in my activity, and
would recommend against anyone else doing the same.  It was both
quirky and buggy, and I never got it working quite as I wanted.  I've
been converting my activity to Gaphas, which is much nicer to use and
gives more bang for the buck.  The only 'problem' is that it isn't
packaged for Fedora, and the Debian package is out of date.  Its
available from the cheeseshop and as source, so its not hard to bundle
it with your activity.
http://gaphor.devjavu.com/wiki/Subprojects/Gaphas
http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/bobbyp/gaphas

Bobby

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