I'm looking forward to the day when I might use two different versions
of AbiWord. One with all the features I'd like to normally use (styles,
collapsible outlining, etc., and maybe a few import/export filters), the
second the leanest meanest AbiWord that might be used on a Palm Pilot or
my laptop with 8MB of Ram. Therefore, I favor plugins. I agree that
100 LOC is small for a plug in, but maybe one day we will have a
catchall
plugin with a lot of these little things, which means we can still have
the lean/mean AbiWord without these kind of things.
PS: I also agree with a later post that talks about the capability of
doing math within fields (in Word) -- I had forgotten about that.
$.02
Randy Kramer
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>
> On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 08:21:46PM +0800, ha shao wrote:
> > The hammer thing is a wrong metaphor from the beginning. Abiword
> > is not a caculator, if you want it to do something other than wp,
> > you have to pay for it. That way, people who use it as a wp would
> > not pay for you. However small it is, it does not belong to wp.
>
> Wait a minute, I thought this was Free Software.
> I really can't understand your animosity.
> Are you expecting to make money out of extra abiword features and someone just
>"stole" you one?
>
> > It's the job of plugin. Otherwise, the same arguement can be used
> > to any itches everyone want to scratch. And we will get a mozilla,
> > I mean gazilla soon.
>
> This is a small hack which is probably DUMB to make as a plugin.
> It's so small that being a plugin will:
> make it harder to be XP
> cause more work than it needs.
>
> having features which one user can use (and that don't harm anyone) means one more
>user happy.
>
> Oh, and please, do not use mozilla as a point behind your arguments again (at least
>that way). I won't even touch those pesty remarks about the *BEST* browser in the
>world.
>
> mozilla and AbiWord have many things in common:
> they're both XP (though in different ways, since they created their own xp tk)
> they're both primarily c++.
> they're both bringing the normal user to the linux desktop
> they're both worried with ease of use and standards
>
> Hugs, rms
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