Re: OSNews RedHat 8 review & AbiWord

From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Oct 01 2002 - 22:29:32 EDT

  • Next message: Dom Lachowicz: "Re: OSNews RedHat 8 review & AbiWord"

     --- Dom Lachowicz <doml@appligent.com> wrote: > On
    Tue, 2002-10-01 at 13:45, Alan Horkan wrote:
    > > On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, [iso-8859-1] Andrew Dunbar
    > > wrote:
    > >
    > > > Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 06:10:40 +0100 (BST)
    > > > From: "[iso-8859-1] Andrew Dunbar"
    > > > <hippietrail@yahoo.com>
    > > > To: AbiWord <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
    > > > Subject: OSNews RedHat 8 review & AbiWord
    > > >
    > > > I haven't read the whole review yet but notice
    > > > this screenshot which includes AbiWord with some
    > > > pointed comments typed into it:
    > > >
    > > >
    http://osnews.beosjournal.org/img/1842/redhat4.jpg
    > > >
    > > > Is the numlock problem known? Sounds like other
    > > > too-low-level keyboard code problems.
    > > >
    > > > Anyway it's a bit negative so give it a look.
    > >
    > > There was a bug that complianed about the chunky
    > > fonts problem in the redhat beta, i dont know what
    > > RedHat have done to break abiword.
    > >
    > > It seemed odd to me that RedHat was using
    > > something like "Nimbus Roman" as the default font
    > > rather than Times New Romam or Arial.

    I wonder if they've done their own hack to "fix" the
    AbiWord fonts in 8.0? Anyone got 8.0 yet?
    (I'd love it if somebody has a CD burner and an
    airmail stamp) </begging>

    > > I cannot find the bug report, it is filed
    > > somewhere in bugzilla under linux...
    >
    > The best retort we can come up with is to post the
    > 1.1.1 release this Friday with yummy Xft goodness.

    Is this 1.1.1 based on STABLE with Xft? The new
    with-tables HEAD-based stuff will be 2.x.x right?

    > OOo looks dreadful here (on RedHat null) - the fonts
    > are perhaps worse than the old Abi fonts. Unlike OOo
    > we look like we even fit into the RedHat destkop. If
    > we don't turn this author's head with all of our
    > busywork and eye candy, we can always flame him/her
    > or go mope in a corner :)

    By the way, I've reopened the numlock problem she
    mentions. Anyone seen this lately? Is RedHat known
    to patch AbiWord at all?

    Andrew.

    > Dom
    >

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