Hi Robert, As you can see from Charlie's reply, this bug won't ever be fixed in 12.04. You'll have to either wait till the next Ubuntu release or switch to a different distribution. The abiword community recommends you stick with version 2.8.6. You can get it in Fedora 17.
Martin On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Robert Spanjaard <[email protected]> wrote: > "This doesn't matter to Ubuntu, because they use LibreOffice by > default..." > > If this is true, and Ubuntu only cares about the packages that are > installed by default, I'm off to a different distro. Abiword is > available in the standard repositories, so it's part of Ubuntu just like > LibreOffice. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are a member of AbiWord > Stable Builds, which is subscribed to abiword in Ubuntu. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/804169 > > Title: > Smooth scrolling can't be disabled > > Status in “abiword” package in Ubuntu: > Confirmed > > Bug description: > In the Preferences window, there is no option to set/disable smooth > scrolling, despite it being listed in the Help page on abisource.com. > Through Google, I learned that it can be set/disabled in the configuration > file ~/.AbiSuite/AbiWord.Profile. But when I add the line > "EnableSmoothScrolling=0" to the _custom_ scheme, as described on various > sites, it is simply ignored by the program. > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/abiword/+bug/804169/+subscriptions -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/804169 Title: Smooth scrolling can't be disabled To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/abiword/+bug/804169/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
