Sunday, December 1, 2019¶
Mari wanted to re-work on a presentation she realized last year using sozi, an extension for Inkscape.
I tried:
$ sudo apt-get install sozi
In Inkscape I now have . But launching it causes error messages. The first error was something about Canberra not being loaded, it went away after doing (thanks to askubuntu.com):
$ sudo apt install libcanberra-gtk-module libcanberra-gtk3-module
The next one didn’t yet go away:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "sozi.py", line 27, in <module>
import pygtk
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pygtk'
I intuitively tried:
$ sudo apt-get install python-gtk2-dev
That didn’t help.
After reading this issue I guess that Sozi (or Inkscape) has problems on machines with more than one Python installation. Needs more investigation.
Meanwhile Mari had told me that she will rather use a Windows computer at school tomorrow where she can use prezi.com…
The author of sozi is Guillaume Savaton who writes “Sozi is a personal project that I develop in my spare time with the occasional help of several other developers and a lot of translators. I develop Sozi for my own use, and I share it with you for free in the hope that you will find it useful. For this reason, the development of Sozi does not follow a well-defined roadmap and I tend to focus on developing features that I will actually use.” (baierouge.fr)
Guillaume accepts donations using different systems, one of them is Liberapay, driven by a
GitHub also started a donations system, which is currently in beta. The Sphinx project’s maintainer Takeshi KOMIYA invited us to donate. I wonder how he will receive that money, and how much does GitHub get for their service? I searched their docs but did not get any answer.
Offering a service and deliberately not explaining how it is being financed… such behaviour triggers allergic reaction to me…
Donation networks seem to be a great solution for carrying the maintenance of free software projects. But they must be transparent and decentralized, otherwise you drive out devils replacing them with Beelzebub. And maybe they are unefficient. Because there are hundreds of FOSS projects that deserve some of my money. A whole budgeting system! Do you imagine me managing this?