[scribus-dev] scribus from command line

[Matthew Brincke]

Hello all,

sorry that I can't seem to find how to reconfigure Yahoo Mail
to not more-or-less push me to top-post because it omits all
the citation marks :-(.

Now to topic: is there any public download directory or
repository for scribus-headless source or patches? I'm
interested in trying it out too.

Best regards,

mabri
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Von: a.l.e <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch>
An: Scribus Development Mailing List <scribus-dev at lists.scribus.net> 
Gesendet: 9:16 Freitag, 31.Juli 2015
Betreff: Re: [scribus-dev] scribus from command line



hi berteh,




Is there any plan to improve command-line (/headless) mode of
      scribus?

no, no plan but -- at least from my side -- a strong interest in
   getting it to work (better)!

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...

as you say, 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.

is the the year of scribus on the server? :-)

ciao
a.l.e


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