From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed May 08 2002 - 02:45:55 EDT
On Wed, 8 May 2002, [iso-8859-1] Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> --- Martin Sevior
> <msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au> wrote: >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 8 May 2002, [iso-8859-1] Andrew Dunbar
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > We aim at robust inter-operability with existing
> > > products, such as Microsoft Word®, Corel's
> > > WordPerfect®, and others. Our goal is to
> > incorporate
> > > the most useful features of these competing
> > > applications without the fluff, bloat, or slowness
> > > that accompany them. The result is a lean and mean
> > > word processor, the download size being less than
> > 4
> > > megabytes.
> > >
> > >
> > > -- I don't like the word 'slowness'. Maybe
> > > 'inefficiency'. 'fluff' also sounds a bit
> > > derogatory and we're probably not fluff-free in
> > the
> > > eyes of many users either. And some fluff is
> > > good fluff (:
> > >
> >
> > I left in fluff and changed slowness to
> > inefficiency.
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > >
> > > The worldwide team of AbiWord volunteers is
> > already
> > > hard at work developing the next release of
> > AbiWord,
> > > which will include advanced features such as
> > tables
> > > and support for more complex languages. Users,
> > > writers, translators, testers, and developers are
> > all
> > > encouraged to try out AbiWord and see what they'd
> > like
> > > to add next.
> > >
> > > -- This is the perfect place to advertise for
> > > international developers. I can't emphasize
> > enough
> > > how badly we are going to need especially Indian
> > > and/or Southeast Asian developers. The same goes
> > for
> > > translators.
> >
> > I put a request for Korean, Arabic and South Asian
> > developers and
> > Translators.
>
> I'm a bit concerned about "Arabic developers". The
> "Arabic script" is also used by tens of millions of
> non Arabs, especially in Iran and Pakistan and
> their versions of the script actually require a bit
> more expertise than plain old Arabic so their input
> would be more valuable.
> That said, I'm not quite sure what an accurate and
> politically correct wording would be without sounding
> overly jargonistic - any ideas?
That class would be covered in "South Asian" right?
>
> > > -- I would also personally make the fact that
> > tables
> > > aren't here yet more prominent. Closer to the
> > top.
> > > We should defuse this expectation before people
> > get
> > > their hopes up. We probably should say something
> > to
> > > the effect of 'it does almost everything except
> > > tables,
> > > which is the #1 priority for the next version'.
> > > But we also don't want to make it sound like that
> > > version is a couple of weeks away...
> > >
> >
> > I decided to leave it as is. Introducing that
> > earlier negates some of the
> > positive vibes we engenger.
>
> Well that's what we do now. We give them positive
> vibes - and then we negate them. I'd prefer not to
> make them expect too much early on is all.
> Since many people feel the lack of tables make AbiWord
> unusable or a toy I think we should do this. for
> almost any other missing feature I'd do just as you've
> done now.
>
Sorry, unless you can some up with a specific wording that I like, I'll go
with the current phrasing.
Martin
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