Subject: Re: Directory navigation
From: Robert Sievers (bob@abisource.com)
Date: Tue Jan 11 2000 - 17:00:32 CST
At 02:26 PM 1/8/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Directory Navigation - Red Hat 6.1 - KDE - Whole Linux Install
>When I want to open a file in linux, I can navigate directory structures
>if I highlight the directory and press Enter. It doesn't navigate with
>the mouse i.e. clicking the highlighted directory (1, 2, many) doesn't
>do anything.
>Bug? Feature? Later?
>Works in windoze! Probably because it uses windoze services (what can
>we learn from this, Xfree?).
Actually, this behavior is unique to your system. What window manager are
you running? I take it other applications allow you to use double click
navigation?
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>I read in an html page saved from email. If I save it, it's .abw. If I
>do save as, it add <p> to every line. I believe I should be able to
>just say save and/or save-as, and have it ask if I want it in .abw or as
>is.
>To make the spec more explicit for cross-platform issues, the file open
>could have HTML as a type.
>In any case, I don't think it should add a bunch of html to an html
>file.
This is currrently logged as bug #392
http://www.abisource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=392
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>I personally think the XML is the way to go and, for sure, the wave of
>the future. I'm working with a company that does a complete suite with
>XML as its format and it seems to work very well and offers some nice
>side benefit e.g. trivially able to use the word processor file in a
>spreadsheet or slide show.
>If ABI used XML, it could display HTML formatted or as script
>(trivially). The non-trivial part, of course, is going to another file
>format.
Yes, we have been very happy using XML as our file format as well. Using
XML has made our lives much easier. As AbiWord continues to gain users,
some better AbiWord XML to HTML conversion might become available.
Robert Sievers
Open Source Evangelist
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