search

aoloe / scribus-newsletter

monthly newsletter about scribus development
Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International
3 stars 5 forks source link

August 2015 #2

Open aoloe opened 9 years ago

aoloe commented 9 years ago
aoloe commented 9 years ago

talk about CIELAB colour space

aoloe commented 9 years ago

widows and orphans?

aoloe commented 9 years ago

scribus headless

there are no concrete plans bu a strong interest in getting scribus to better work in headless mode!

what really helps are small incremental patches that improve the current state or open the way for further improvements. big changesets that scramble the whole thing are harder to merge...

currently scribus headless is rather slow...
as far as i know, the reason is -- partially or mostly -- related to the fact that part of the scribus logic depends on the GUI being fully initialized. finding those parts and proposing patches that reduce the number of those dependencies will help to get scribus to run much faster in headless mode (by having to initialize less things) and possibly also in the gui...

another way of improving the current situtation would be to allow scribus to run as a server/service accepting requests and running the matching actions (so that you don't have to launch scribus each time you want to perform an action). both are interesting approaches that can coexist.

in the last year the have been several such patches proposed by contributors and those have made it possible to run scribus headless! that's a new thing for scribus.

the only thing that is very unlikely to happen is being able to install and run scribus without a properly configured (virtual) GUI/X11 environment.