<div>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!<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you and the entire development team for your work!<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block"><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user protonmail_signature_block-empty"><br></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block-proton">Sent with <a href="https://protonmail.com" target="_blank">ProtonMail</a> Secure Email.<br></div></div><div><br></div><div>‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐<br></div><div> On Friday, May 1, 2020 2:53 PM, Karl Kleinpaste <karl@kleinpaste.org> wrote:<br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="protonmail_quote" type="cite"><div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/26/20 9:49 AM, garrison21 wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite">Xiphos
is no longer available through apt, Synaptic, or Gnome
Software<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:FreeSerif">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.<br> <br> On the devel list, recently we have begun discussing editor <span style="font-family:FreeSerif">replacement</span> 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.<br> <br> 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.</span><br></div></blockquote>