Dom Lachowicz wrote:

AbiWord development has been progressing at a
marvelous clip and it's getting to the point where we
should put another big, fancy DOT-OH release out
there.

These past 8 months or so have seen an absolutely
tremendous amount of work. The 2.0 release will be
focussed on stabilizing and polishing those new
features, adding a few remaining features, and making
sure that we haven't regressed with regard to our
previous (1.0) feature set.

I said this before I released 1.0 - "This isn't to
mark the end of AbiWord development, it marks the
beginning." Well, 2.0 marks an incremental advancement
towards that mythical end. 2.0 will have bugs. 2.0
will lack features. This is to be expected. But we
promise to do our best to keep the nasties to a
minimum and incorporate missing features into future
releases.

Target Platforms:
Win32
*NIX (Linux, BSD, Solaris, XDarwin in particular)
QNX

If the MacOSX/Cocoa build progresses substantially, we
might have an "experimental" release of it. I will not
hold back the 2.0 release on MacOSX's behalf.

At present, I'm using bug 4468 as a tracker bug for
many of the issues that stand in the way of the 2.0
release. 4468 is not complete, but we'll work on
making it better represent how we want 2.0 to come
out.

Expected New Features (in addition to our current
feature set):
* Better mail merge UI
* Gnome Port (GnomePrint, GAL toolbar widgets, and the
Bonobo control only for now)

Expected polish/bugfix/improved 2.0 features:
* Tables (UI, interaction, imp/exp)
* Footnotes (needs imp/exp to RTF, DOC)
* Endnotes (make work again, imp/exp)
* Revisions (make work properly, imp/exp)
* BiDi
* XFT fonts on unix
* Unix printing
* OpenOffice importer/exporter
* Mail merge
* Barbarisms

Expected polish/bugfix/improvements over 1.0 features:
* HTML import/export
* GTK2 UI (ideally remove any deprecated
widgets/functions, make work on both GTK 2.0 and 2.2)
* XSL-FO import/export
* Spelling problems
* Help problems
* Crash problems

How about making the 'Single Units' default and fixup that feature?(..and add it to the list )




/Johan


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