[xiphos-users] New maps module, FreeBibleMaps, Xiphos repo

[garrison21]

Hi and thanks for the info, glad to hear the problems are being looked at as this is a very valuable program in general, and to have on Ubuntu. I hope, God willing, a good solution can be found going forward! In the meantime I do have Xiphos running via Flatpak and a few extra commands to enable access to default folders (.xiphos & .sword) but having it back in the U-Repo would be wonderful!

Thank you and the entire development team for your work!

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On Friday, May 1, 2020 2:53 PM, Karl Kleinpaste <karl at kleinpaste.org> wrote:

> On 4/26/20 9:49 AM, garrison21 wrote:
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>> Xiphos is no longer available through apt, Synaptic, or Gnome Software
>
> Fundamental problem is that Xiphos still relies on the gtkhtml-editor package for its editor.  The gtkhtml packages are in general very old and deprecated, yet the replacement interfaces for GTK built-in editors are ... seriously suboptimal, and that's being more than kind. Ubuntu in particular removed gtkhtml packages some time ago, and consequently Xiphos has not been (directly) buildable there since.  I had understood that someone had produced a nasty patch that essentially removed the editor, just to keep it alive in Ubuntu, but I gather that this is no longer available.
>
> On the devel list, recently we have begun discussing editor replacement strategies.  It is very likely that something will be done about this in the next month or two, if either I can do it directly or I can convince a couple other well-minded folks to attack the problem.
>
> As things stand right now, we are about to release 4.2.0 this weekend.  The editor has not changed, so it will be no benefit in Ubuntu but I believe we have new momentum toward improving Xiphos.
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