On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > From: Martin Sevior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: 2002/12/06 Fri AM 05:39:20 EST > > To: Dom Lachowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Hubert Figuiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: My movements. > ... > > Move abicommand out of the plugins into the main build. > ... > > Just curious, what does moving it to the main build give > you? Also (while except for use of readline would be > fairly easy) will this be ported to all platforms? or > only added to the Unix build?
It will only be added to the unix build. Other platforms will need to work out a way to generate fonts and font metrics without accessing the GUI. I'm doing this to enable abiword to be used as a server via either a bonobo or stdio interface. In particular I want to add a "sniff" feature where abiword word imports a line or two of text and then outputs it as UTF-8 string. The idea is to feed this to Nautilus so that one can view the first line or two of their docs in the icon displaying their docs. This way a user can tell at a glance what each document is without having to open it. Nautilus has this feature already for text files - I want to extend it to all the files abiword can read (a LOT!) I personally would find this very useful. Cheers Martin > > Jerm. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
