Re: OLPC and non-PNG image support

On 5/6/07, Jeff <web.kiddo@free.fr> wrote:
>
> Hello folks!
>
> I was attending the Libre Graphics Meeting these last few days in
> Montreal and I had the chance to take a look at the 100$ laptop. I saw
> the guy demonstrating that he could use the built-in webcam to take a
> picture, and insert the JPEG image into Abiword.
>
> I'm pretty sure you guys guessed what I told him here :)
>
> "yeah, but there is this huge bug that Abiword does not really support
> jpg, so you're actually seeing a jpg converted to png, and you will end
> up with a document weighting 100MB"*
>
> http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1349
>
> This _needs_ to be fixed. I am dead serious. What will happen when you
> have kids with laptops that completely die down when trying to open a
> document they made because it now weights several dozens megabytes and
> they are not even aware of it? The 100$ laptop will never have the horse
> power to correct this problem*, and transferring it "outside" the laptop
> with WiFi might be cumbersome and downright impossible with
> non-broadband connections.
>
> Won't somebody please think of the children? ;-)

We are aware that abiword is not perfect (hardly any software is,
fwiw). Please understand that this is an open source project and all
disclaimers concerning this matter apply. Users of our product that
are not happy with the state of affairs are welcome to provide
manpower or funding towards resolution of potential issues (there's
precedent for both approaches).

Best,
Rob
Received on Sun May 6 22:58:22 2007