On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:07:53 -0400 Arthur Radley <[email protected]> wrote:
> I finally got Abiword-2.9.4 installed without GTK+-3 by using the > --with-gtk2 configure option. That idea did not work with Abiword-2.9.3 > (make errors). With that option, Abiword-2.9.4 installed quietly, looks > normal, and works normally. It still ignores normal.awt in $HOME, so I > edited the system version of the file. This should get me and Abiword > through the next six months or so. Thanks for the info, tis good to know. Some years ago I built Abiword from source. That version had an annoying bug - sometimes when printing it would silently omit the last few lines of a page. Uuuughhhh. Years later, when I built a new LFS system, a much newer version of Abiword would crash when certain fonts were selected, another version would crash if spell checking was enabled. Today's versions are better, but I think they are bloating up. I generally like Abiword, and there is a need for the functionality it provides, but I wish its developers would take a time out and clean up the bugs and stop adding new features and bloat, at least until they get the basics right. Ditto for Firefox. Once the complexity, dependencies and bloat of an application reaches a certain point, I start feeling the need to switch to another, saner, application - and if I find one, my life generally gets better. Cheers, Mike Shell -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
