Re: What I've been working on

[Ben Pfaff]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 2:23 PM Friedrich Beckmann
<friedrich.beckmann@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> Ben, did you write these notes for archeologists ?
>
> https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd000469.shtml

I didn't write that page, but it clearly draws from (and cites) a lot
of material that I did write.

> I even tried to save the output window as .spv but I think I was too 
> optimistic on that one :-)

Hmm? The output window should support saving as .spv now. If it
doesn't (I am sure that there are bugs), then I'd like to hear about
it, and fix it.

> There is the waiting problem on debian that python2 will phase out some time 
> in the future - so that alone is a reason for a new release and I also think 
> that many new things and bugfixes made it into master. I have two things that 
> I have not on the bugtracker which I would like to upload before a release.

That's a good point about Python.

> I have done some things towards correct integration in the desktop namely the 
> mime types and desktop file. I am currently working on the icons setup such 
> that they are not blurred and that maybe the correct find icon is shown. The 
> other thing is that I want to add some more accurate help_pages entries in 
> .ui files such that not the main help page is shown.
>
> The yelp system is still broken three years after the bug report from John. 
> We could make html the default also for systems with yelp - what do you think?

I'm in favor of anything that works in this case.