[Mono-docs-list] Monodoc print support patch - feedback needed.
Rafael Ferreira
lists at ophion.org
Thu Sep 8 12:42:27 EDT 2005
Mario,
my responses below:
- raf
On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 17:13 +0200, Mario Sopena wrote:
> Hey,
>
> On 9/6/05, Rafael Ferreira <lists at ophion.org> wrote:
> > Mario,
> >
> > here's the updated patch. It took me some time to get this to you
> > because I updated my docbrowser and monodoc sources so I had to merge
> > the printing patch upstream. This time I basically edited the
> > browser.glade file by hand, adding only the needed entries.
> >
> > Let me know what you could use a hand with next.
>
> I took your patch and worked a little bit with it. This are the things
> I've changed:
>
> - Since we already have an abstraction for separing Gecko and GtkHTML
> with IHtmlRender and the two implementations (Gtk and Gecko), I've
> moved all the printing logic to them, so we can get rif of
> IPrintManager and GtkHTMLPrintManager. I do think is more sane now. I
> have used a Print method only with a parameter, the html code, because
> when using css, the html code returned by the HelpSource already has
> the css.
Makes sense to me. My patch was hacked without much knowledge of the
underlying monodoc structure.
>
> - The print menu item is only clickable when you are not editing a node
>
> - I've encountered problems because the two kinds of Url presents in
> monodoc (with your patch, the browser crashed when printing a node
> which was accesed through the treeview). I think now it works.
I'll try to track this down further since it sounds like a possible
issue with the provider no returning the node's html.
>
> - The ecma provider was not tracking well the use_css variable. Now,
> it will print the html according to it. (For the moment, everything
> without css)
>
> - I've left out the thing with gnome-stock-about and gtk-about because
> I'm not sure it's really important now, try to open a bug in bugzilla.
>
AFAIK, the gnome-stock icons are deprecated. I believe we can safely
change that to gtk-stock-about without adding any regression problems.
> By the way, I think the monodoc section of bugzilla is forgoten and
> unmaintained. Miguel, can you give me permission to deal with it?
>
> Comments?
Monodoc's bugzilla has been pretty dead for some time now... I remember
there's even an old patch that I submitted in there.
Overall everything sounds good Mario, I hope the patch makes into the
next release.
>
> Mario
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