Subject: Re: Table support
From: Alan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Tue Dec 11 2001 - 10:31:39 CST
James Ogley wrote:
> Long time listener, first time caller ;-)
> I'm trying to prepare an article on Desktop Linux, and one app I want to
> talk about is AbiWord, but there's a question I would like to clear up.
i wish i knew where my desktop went, i seem to have managed to turn it
off by mistake and now just have a big blank desktop and the Gnome panel
(Mandrake 8.1).
im too damned good at breaking software.
> I know that Table Support is penciled for 1.2, and the reason for this
> is that it's going to require a major rewrite of the display engine and
> file specification, what I'd like to know is what were the reasons that
> this functionality wasn't included from the outset, as the bugzilla
> voting seems to suggest it's something a lot of people consider to be a
> very important feature of a Word Processor?
because its difficult.
im not being glib, look how many Notepad like text editors there are out
there. Im well impressed by the amount of planning and structure that
Abisource/Sourcegear put in place, without which abiword would not run
on so many platforms, have so many importers and exporters, and have
quite a nice collection of plugins building up, the fact that Abiword
continues to evolve as a totally volunteer project, the fact that it
competes with Kword and Star/Open Office.
> I use Abi for about 90% of my WP requirements, and the table support
> (along with corresponding improvements to the Word import filter) will
> probably give it the remaining 10%, in the meantime, really looking
> forward to 1.0 :)
Please contribute any way you can.
http://bugzilla.abisource.com
help move Abiword along to 1.0,
find submitted bugs and verify them or try and mark them as "Works for
Me" (be very careful about closing bugs, try not unless you are tottally
sure)
find bugs in the QA Verify state and help us to fully close them.
Piss off the developers (like i do) by submitting loads of new bugs!!!
but seriously do submit bug reports, try and hold off on the feature
requests tho'
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