[scribus-dev] scribus from command line

William Bader williambader at hotmail.com
Fri Jul 31 12:42:05 UTC 2015



To: scribus-dev at lists.scribus.net
From: ale.comp_06 at xox.ch
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 09:16:42 +0200
Subject: 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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