On Mit, Feb 26, 2003 at 11:09:27 -0800, Matt Brubeck wrote: > On Feb 26, Johannes Rohr wrote: > > > While Gnumeric is quite mature and stable, almost a drop-in > > replacement for M$ Excel, the current version of AbiWord in Sid is > > still heavily broken. It heavily violates the FHS (Binaries in > > /usr/share) and it is _very_ unstable, doesn't have Gnome compliant > > XML-documentation, the bonobo component is broken etc. > > In addition, the version of Abiword in sid is no longer integrated with > GNOME. Most GNOME integration has been dropped in the gtk2 Abiword. > > This affects users in large ways (Abiword does not register filetypes > and so its files won't open from Nautilus) and small ways (Abiword > documents no longer appear in the gnome-panel "Recent Items" menu).
To me it seems that these are packaging bugs, not design decisions. Try symlinking /usr/bin/AbiWord-2.0 to /usr/bin/AbiWord and suddenly Gnome agains knows of its existence. Thanks, Johannes
