Closed ethindp closed 2 years ago
mush42
commented
3 years ago Hi, Bookworm builds and runs on linux alright, last tested 3 months ago. The only problem is that wx widgets is not accessible on linux. At least based on my testing. Any thoughts?
MesterPerfect
commented
3 years ago @mush42 Wx library doesn't work well in linux The solution is to design a different GUI using QT5 or Tkinter QT5 includes an application designer.exe which can be used to create a graphical user interface without writing any code
ethindp
commented
3 years ago Don't use tkinter if you want an accessible user interface. Instead, either use QT5 (not recommended) or GTK.
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@mush42 Wx library doesn't work well in linux The solution is to design a different GUI using QT5 or Tkinter QT5 includes an application designer.exe which can be used to create a graphical user interface without writing any code
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mush42
commented
3 years ago Hi all,
I'm aware that GTK is the most accessible GUI toolkit on Linux today. Specially the latest version, GTK4.
Rewriting the GUI layer of Bookworm to use multiple GUI backends is quite an undertaking.
Unless someone volunteers to oversee this work, or someone sponsors it financially, I could not guarantee that Linux support will happen soon.
With our limited resources, it is better to make a great document reader for Windows, rather than making a mediocre cross-platform one.
Regards,
ethindp
commented
3 years ago To my knowledge, GTK4 does not yet have any accessibility whatsoever. I've tried using GTK4 apps in the past and Orca couldn't even work with them.
On 5/23/21, Musharraf @.***> wrote:
Hi all,
I'm aware that GTK is the most accessible GUI toolkit on Linux today. Specially the latest version, GTK4.
Rewriting the GUI layer of Bookworm to use multiple GUI backends is quite an undertaking.
Unless someone volunteer to oversee this work, or someone sponsor it financially, I could not guarantee that Linux support will happen soon.
With our limited resources, it is better to make a great document reader for Windows, rather than making a mediocre cross-platform one.
Regards,
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mush42
commented
2 years ago Hello all,
The main issue here is that WxPython is not very accessible on Linux, tested on Ubuntu 20.04.
The core of Bookworm, e.g. document parsing, document structure, searching..etc is fairly platform agnostic, and Windows specific features are enabled conditionally using a boolean flag.
I'm eager to see a Linux port of Bookworm, and I can even help with that. But currently, I'm focusing on improving the experience on Windows and making it the best it could be.
Best Musharraf
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Bookworm is, from what I can gather, only available on Windows.
Describe the solution you'd like
Bookworm can reach even more people by becoming cross-platform. So long as it doesn't use any platform-specific code (I haven't verified this) it shouldn't be too difficult to be made cross-platform. In particular, calls to accessibility/screen reader APIs can be replaced with calls to speech-dispatcher for TTS.
Describe alternatives you've considered
Bookworm could be ran in wine, but Linux accessibility APIs and screen readers cannot function in such an environment.
Additional context
I'd love to be able to use Bookworm on Linux. I'm using Linux as my main driver now, and have lots of PDFs and EPUBs that I would need to use (alternative) tools to read -- tools like Calibre. I'm not a fan of these tools, however.