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[Israel <israeldahl@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!
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On 08/05/2018 06:59 PM, ml@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Sat, August 4, 2018 8:47 am, Israel wrote:
>> Absolutely!  We'd love to have your help in any way possible!  I also
>> look forward to the future FLTK version (SVG support is built in!!).
> They're using nanosvg.  So is SDL_image.  I tried several lightweight SVG
> libraries and nanosvg seemed like the most functional.  Guess some of the
> FLTK and SDL developers came to the same conclusion because they adopted
> it as well.  nanosvg is useful even when it's not integrated with a
> particular GUI or screen library.  Only issue I had with it was that it
> couldn't handle the output from abcm2ps.  Would like to find a decent
> lightweight viewer (Postscript or SVG) that could render the output from
> that program in a readable way.
Yes!  I use nanosvg in all my FLTK programs, for the same reasons.  It
was during a discussion I had with the FLTK devs about wanting FLTK to
support SVG that they decided on using nanosvg and pointed me to it.
>> 1. Screen shot tool/ image viewer.
> I've looked at some code from screen shot tools, but haven't put anything
> together for this yet.  Imagemagick
We currently use ImageMagick and zenity/yad/etc.. to do this, but it
would be nice to have an app that integrates actual ImageMagick code,
rather than doing something like
system("import -window root");
>  or graphicsmagick works well for
> screen capture and I've used them on occasion.  As to an image viewer, I
> like picaxo.  It uses SDL 1.2 and I have a port to SDL 2.x.  For
> slideshows, I like perigee.  It's also a SDL program.  There's a Windows
> front end.  I've been experimenting with creating a FLTK front end for it
> that will work cross-platform.
Does picaxo perform the same minimal functions that a program like
lximage does?
>> 2. Calendar (possible integration with calendar services as an option...
>> i.e. google's calendar for people who use those)
> For an ultra-lightweight command line calendar, I like pcal.
I use the basic zenity calendar currently in ToriOS, and I added support
for gcalcli to be used with it.
I think many people are more accustomed (since the advent of smart
phones) to the calDAV type... but a PIM that integrates with the popular
ones a user might want/need would be good.
> http://pcal.sourceforge.net/
> For a PIM, I like fltdj (which is FLTK based).
The FLTK version is quite old, and has been replaced by a Qt version...
but it is a starting point!
>   I've seen some libraries
> for ical support.  Might be interesting to add something like that to
> fltdj.
>
>> Wishlist:
>>
>>
>> 1. Printer configuration tool
> What about XPP ( https://packages.debian.org/jessie/xpp )?
Ok, this is worth testing out, I guess I did not realize this existed. 
It does not seem to include an easy to use, straight forward way to add
printers (the main thing it would be needed for, I think).  Most
programs offer options to customize the printing, so this app seems more
useful in times past.
>
>> 3. create FLTK versions of all the X11 apps (calc, text editor, etc...)
> For calc, I like flcalc.
Do you have the source?  The link on fltk.org is dead :(
>   nanolinux uses flwriter as a text editor.  I
> also like fldev.  Would like to get the debugger code working with it
> though.  Not sure what other apps you'd need.
If fldev have syntax highlighting I'd much rather include it than
anything else.
> Some of the FLTK programs I've run across are listed here:
> https://lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/#entry-1565
I've played with some of those, like flvlc.  I've actually had the idea
of porting it over to FLUID so that it could be more easily visually
modified.  I use FLUID extensively because it allows for visual
fine-tuning.... though it has its quirks/drawbacks.
I would like to have a version of VLC that has the mouse-over pop up of
the video.  I made a QML video player with this feature, and think it
would be really nice in VLC.

And of course Rendera is awesome!  I think if I did an image viewer
program, it would be a simple viewer, perhaps similar to lximage...
> Nanolinux has several FLTK programs as well:
> https://sourceforge.net/p/nanolinux/wiki/Home/
I have looked at the source for some of their stuff before, like flburn.
My main concern with most FLTK apps, is most do not look nice right out
of the box.
> TinyCore and a few other distributions have useful FLTK applications too.
I think I have looked into some of their programs as well, and some
programs on Puppy as well.
> I have patches for some of the FLTK applications (fixes to get them
> working on the latest version of FLTK, memory bug fixes, etc.)  Hoping to
> get them uploaded to the Internet at some time in the future.
>
>> Extra Wishlist:
>> 3. FLTK frontend to libfm4 (pcmanfm in FLTK would be really cool)
> There are at least 2 or 3 FLTK based file managers (although they don't
> use libfm4).  I also particularly like a SDL based file manager.  It's the
> two pane kind similar to worker.
i specifically want it to handle most things common users expect in a
modern OS, things like mtp/gvfs and handling the desktop (i.e. adding
icons on the desktop, etc...), automatic volume mounting, and offering
the choice of what to do (play the DVD/CD/open the Phone's SD card
etc...)  If any of those handle that I am interested!
>> Also, if you have any programs that are not on this list that you think
>> would help, please bring them up, such as your work with web browser and
>> HTML markup stuff you have been doing in FLTK :D
> At the moment, I'm working on a project that most people probably won't be
> interested in.  Most distributions tend to prefer minimal changes to Open
> Source projects.  I prefer customizing code to provide whatever features I
> might need.
That is what Libre software is for :)
>   I've been looking for lightweight PDF, cbz and cbr viewers.
> The only options for PDF libraries I've been able to dig up are xpdf,
> poppler and mupdf.
We use xpdf, but a nicer one would be good.
>   I tend to prefer more lenient Open Source licenses. 
> However, the PDF libraries are either GPL or Affero GPL.  I noticed
> someone on github was using the GPLv2 version of mupdf.  So, that got me
> thinking I might want to try working with mupdf before it switched to the
> Affero license.  The GPL 2 version was missing a lot of features.  The GPL
> 3 version is also missing some features, but not as much.  So I've been
> going through the GPL version 3 code and various forks of the GPLv3
> versions on github to see if I could come up with anything interesting. 
> There's a LGPL unarr library with SumatraPDF that handles rar format (for
> cbr).  mupdf already handles PDF and cbz.  I managed to get cbr working
> using code from unarr.  Still looking into adding some missing features. 
> I also ran across a SDL front end and was experimenting with FLTK front
> end code at one point.  Hoping to eventually get a lightweight portable
> PDF viewer with the features I need using the mupdf backend.
>
> There's also pdftext which uses mupdf and can be used with grep to search
> PDF files or used to output PDF to text.  For epub format, I'm currently
> using bard.  Haven't found a decent Postscript viewer yet.  So, I'm
> basically looking into various document viewer options and trying to find
> some with minimal dependencies.
If we can support more formats and not increase the space needed, I
would be glad to do it.  It would be nice to shrink our ISO size, and
include more things.
> Sincerely,
> Laura
>

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