I do not wish to perpetuate indefinitely this argument, but let me have just a word in it. I am a partly competent, largely incompetent user of Linux. I greatly value and appreciate all efforts to develop free software for the general public to use. I believe the community and each individual member thereof ought to appreciate your work as Abiword developers, yet, a user, partly competent, largely incompetent like myself and many others, who needs help, has a right to ask for it, with due respect. It is a duty of the community, if not of the developers specifically, to lend a hand. As a matter of fact, with all my incompetence, only a little while after having installed Abiword (1.0.0 on my Gnome/Linux box, 1.0.1 on my Win box), and after having gone through a little trouble to find all the libraries rpm needed to install the Linux version, I answered a question posted on this mailing list by Mr. Keith Powell, who was unable to find the appropriate version of libgnomeVFS, just like Mr. David Thompson had a hard time finding libgal. I realize Mr. Thompson could have used a little more tact when asking, but, all the same, I think flaming him has been a waste of time and energy for all involved, including the readers of this list.
If, for example, instead of flaming Mr. Thompson, Mr. Lachowicz had spent a few seconds reading my--repeated--requests for help on the right-to-left feature of Abiword, now there would be one more happy user of Abiword and a greater deal of gratitude towards the Abisource development team. Thank you very much for your kind consideration. Alex Baretta ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
