[Sugar-devel] Goocanvas as alternative to Hippo?

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 17:01, 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:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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/

Sugar used goocanvas before I started hacking on it. I'm not sure
which was the rationale behind the switch to hippo.

If we had IRC logs, we could investigate ;)

Regards,

Tomeu

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