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In some ways, sk1 is a successor to Skencil I guess.<br>
So the question is: Who needs Skencil?<br></blockquote><div><br>We have received some user's feedback that sK1 is a complex <br>and heavyweight i.e. something like "Please return our simple<br>and lightweight Sketch!" :) I cannot estimate how much users<br>
wish Skencil revitalizing but such requests are really.<br><br><br>
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So the question is: Who is?<br>
If you are interested: What are your suggestions?<br></blockquote><div><br>Here is a draft:<br><br>1.Bugfixing for tk8.5/tk8.6<br>2.Project refactoring for distutils build<br>3.Backport of some improvements from sK1<br>3.Release for ver.0.6.18<br>
4.Fast porting on Gtk widgetset in branch 0.8.x<br></div><br>Details for last item: unfortunately tk widgetset is out of date.<br>ttk widgets are not perfect because ttk API are hidden in <br>conventional tcl/tk so there is no way interacting on C level<br>
to use native themes. i.e. integration into desktop environment<br>is impossible. Also a lot of workarounds is required to utilize ttk in<br>sK1 (we have special sk1sdk package for they). So migration on<br>mainstream widgetset is desirable. <br>
<br>Branch 0.7.x is a complex solution for this because it uses libart canvas.<br>I understand that it is due achieving ability to create win32 port but<br>more elegant way is Gtk DrawingArea usage to substitute <br>custom tk Widget instance. The same Xlib function calls can be used<br>
for drawing on Gtk DrawingArea surface.<br><br>After this milestone win23 port is also possible. Xilb functionality<br>can be substituted by Cairo library function calls.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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Some old times like me just are used to Skencil.<br>
And Skencil was packaged to Debian. Hopefully sK1 also get a packages soon.<br>
<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477101" target="_blank">http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477101</a><br></blockquote><div><br>I have stopped the work because packaging for Debian is a complex issue but during<br>
this year we have splitted sK1 on several packages to synchronize changes with<br>UniConvertor. The work will be continue after sK1 ver.0.9.1 release. It seems this <br>will be a last tk version because ver.1.0 will be Gtk based.<br clear="all">
</div></div><br>-- <br>Regards,<br><br>Igor Novikov<br>sK1 Project<br><a href="http://sk1project.org" target="_blank">http://sk1project.org</a><br><br><br>