[Sugar-devel] Support for EPUB with Read in sugar-jhbuild?

[James Simmons]

Sayamindu,

I installed pywebkitgtk on Fedora 11 and I still get this when trying
to read an EPUB using sugar-jhbuild:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/jim/sugar-jhbuild/install/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sugar/activity/activity.py",
line 437, in __canvas_map_cb
    self.read_file(self._jobject.file_path)
  File "/home/jim/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Read.activity/readactivity.py",
line 595, in read_file
    self._load_document('file://' + self._tempfile)
  File "/home/jim/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Read.activity/readactivity.py",
line 796, in _load_document
    self._setup_epub_viewer()
  File "/home/jim/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Read.activity/readactivity.py",
line 760, in _setup_epub_viewer
    self._view = epubadapter.View()
NameError: global name 'epubadapter' is not defined

This looks pretty much like what I was getting yesterday before I
installed pywebkitgtk.

James Simmons


On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta
<sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 8:51 AM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm doing another FLOSS Manual on e-books and Sugar and one of the
>> things I'd like to do is get some screen shots of the Read Activity
>> reading an EPUB e-book.  I modified Get Internet Archive Books to
>> download EPUBs and that seems to work OK, but when I try to launch
>> Read on one of them it fails to start and complains of a missing
>> adapter.  As I remember it, EPUB support depended on something called
>> webkit, something like that, that was an alternative to gecko.  There
>> was some discussion here on whether we should support both that and
>> gecko.  So I have two questions:
>>
>> 1). How do I get Read as delivered by sugar-jhbuld to work with EPUBs?
>>
>> 2). Does Read support EPUBs on SoaS right now?  If not, what are our
>> future plans regarding EPUB support?
>>
>
> Read should be able to render EPUB files if pywebkitgtk is installed.
> Thanks,
> Sayamindu
>
>
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> Sayamindu Dasgupta
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