Le dimanche 06 mai 2007 à 22:58 +0200, Robert Staudinger a écrit :
> 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).
Yeah, I know, I'm not saying "hey this is sh*t, wtf are you thinking, I
would do better within 10 seconds" or anything like that (if my original
post sounded anything like that, my apologies; I did not mean to send
any feeling of anger, because there really is none).
I really just wanted to point out this issue as a "highly likely problem
in the near future" with a significant user base. How to say it
properly... it is a very visible bug, and since the OLPC toolbar (the
one that I saw at least) has pretty much only simple formatting tools
*and* an "add image" button, and the OLPC facilitates the creation of
images, I am very assured that this missing feature (which I really
think is a bug, not technically speaking) will hit the user in the face
very soon.
In short, I raised this on the mailing list because I feel the bug would
have just crept in there unnoticed (hey, it's six years old after all).
If this is not fixed soon, I feel it would never be. So here I am.
That's a big issue I see with OLPC.
Also, from what I saw so far of Abiword on OLPC, it seems like it's a
simplified/stripped down version (correct me if I'm wrong). Well, I
think it would be very great that the features that *are* available do
work fully without being dangerous (converting jpegs to pngs silently
*is* dangerous imho).
Again, sorry for the tone of my original post if it was menacing in any
way, it was more intended to be "folks, I am worried".
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