[Sugar-devel] [PATCH][Browse] Basic PDF reading

Manuel Quiñones manuq at laptop.org
Thu Mar 22 17:15:31 EDT 2012


El día 22 de marzo de 2012 18:08, Chris Leonard
<cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com> escribió:
> 2012/3/22 Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org>:
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> El día 22 de marzo de 2012 16:50, Chris Leonard
>> <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com> escribió:
>>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org> wrote:
>>>> When a request is made with a MIME type 'application/pdf', a new tab
>>>> is opened next to the current one to show the document.  If the
>>>> document is remote, a download starts, and the progress is shown in
>>>> the toolbar's URL entry.  It can be cancelled with the X button, the
>>>> same for cancelling the loading.
>>>
>>>
>>> Just a random observation I had made at one time in some version of
>>> Browse, this may have changed.  There was a string displayed during
>>> download "Loading...", which was actually from evince (not Browse
>>> itself).   This just serves to emphasize the importance of working to
>>> get upstream projects translated so that we provide a fully localized
>>> UI experience.
>>
>> Loading and downloading are different.  "Loading..." is displayed by
>> Evince inside its viewer while loading the PDF.  Evince doesn't
>> provide a way to open remote PDF files, WebKit is being used to do the
>> download before Evince start loading it.
>>
>> So yes, it is important that upstream Evince is fully localized.
>> Thanks for notice.
>
> For the sake of clarity, are we using Webkit (http://www.webkit.org/)
> or WebKitGTK+ (http://webkitgtk.org/).

We are using WebKitGTK+ .  Which is the port of the WebKit to the GTK+ platform.

>
> My question has to do with identifying any strings we'll want
> localized upstream.

Great.

>
> cjl



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