James Ogley wrote: > Long time listener, first time caller ;-) > I'm trying to prepare an article on Desktop Linux, and one app I want to > talk about is AbiWord, but there's a question I would like to clear up.
i wish i knew where my desktop went, i seem to have managed to turn it off by mistake and now just have a big blank desktop and the Gnome panel (Mandrake 8.1). im too damned good at breaking software. > I know that Table Support is penciled for 1.2, and the reason for this > is that it's going to require a major rewrite of the display engine and > file specification, what I'd like to know is what were the reasons that > this functionality wasn't included from the outset, as the bugzilla > voting seems to suggest it's something a lot of people consider to be a > very important feature of a Word Processor? because its difficult. im not being glib, look how many Notepad like text editors there are out there. Im well impressed by the amount of planning and structure that Abisource/Sourcegear put in place, without which abiword would not run on so many platforms, have so many importers and exporters, and have quite a nice collection of plugins building up, the fact that Abiword continues to evolve as a totally volunteer project, the fact that it competes with Kword and Star/Open Office. > I use Abi for about 90% of my WP requirements, and the table support > (along with corresponding improvements to the Word import filter) will > probably give it the remaining 10%, in the meantime, really looking > forward to 1.0 :) Please contribute any way you can. http://bugzilla.abisource.com help move Abiword along to 1.0, find submitted bugs and verify them or try and mark them as "Works for Me" (be very careful about closing bugs, try not unless you are tottally sure) find bugs in the QA Verify state and help us to fully close them. Piss off the developers (like i do) by submitting loads of new bugs!!! but seriously do submit bug reports, try and hold off on the feature requests tho' <snip> your sig was nearly longer than your message -- ~ |v| // \\ /( )\ ^`~'^ ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
