[scribus-dev] scribus from command line

[a.l.e]

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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