Re: Scrolling and Margin issues

On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 07:35 +1200, zed wrote:

> These three issues do not appear to be present in v2.4.6 on
> LinuxMINT.
> What version of AbiWord are you using and which operating system?

You have reported below that these three functions are performed
flawlessly in your LinuxMINT

I have tried Abiword 2.4.x, and 2.6.3 in Ubuntu Hardy. Both Abiword
versions had all three problems I describe below. I also tried Abiword
2.4.x and 2.6.2 in Puppy Linux. And the same problems were there also.

The fact that it may work in LinuxMINT is not very reassuring for me, as
I do not use that OS. Because Ubuntu is used by so very many people, I
would think it important to ensure Abiword works properly there. And
Puppy Linux is again one of the more commonly used OS's these days. So
the fact that Abiword is not working properly in these OS's is
sufficient, I believe, to suggest that something should be done about
it.

> You wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > However, three issues I wish to ask about which were concerning to
> me
> > when I tried out Abiword:
> >
> > 1) Vertical scrolling is not smooth. If one scrolls up and down a
> > document, all the lines of text blur and smudge together into one
> mass
> > of black color. Is something in the process of being done about
> this?
>
> Works flawlessly in v2.4.6 on LinuxMINT.
>
> <snip>
> >
> > 2) If one selects "Web Layout" in the view window of an OOo Writer
> > document, then the margins of the page automatically go to zero on
> all
> > four sides, and one has the entire screen at one's disposal.
> However, if
> > one selects the Web View in Abiword, the margins remain exactly as
> they
> > were in the Standard View. So that there is no perceptible
> difference
> > between the Web view and the Standard view.
>
> Works flawlessly in v2.4.6 on LinuxMINT.
>
> <snip>
>
> > 3) In the fonts window (the window for changing the font), there is
> no
> > scrollbar. One has to just click on an arrow, and the let the window
> > autoscroll to the font one needs. --But that system is very slow,
> and if
> > one has a lot of fonts, and needs to change them with any
> regularity, it
> > is very troublesome. There should be a scrollbar, so one can scroll
> > quickly through the list of fonts to reach the one one needs.
>
> Works flawlessly in v2.4.6 on LinuxMINT.
>
> <snip>
>
> These three issues do not appear to be present in v2.4.6 on
> LinuxMINT.
> What version of AbiWord are you using and which operating system?

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Received on Mon Jun 2 23:59:32 2008