According to the roadmap we have only headers/footers, dialogs,
and bugs left.
But rather than concentrate on that, I thought I'd distract everyone by
talking about 1.2+ already ;)
First, a minor thing:
I see lists and tables are 1.2ish. I assume borders (as in boxes around
stuff) comes with tables?
Now for big stuff:
Mac version:
I'd like to see the Mac version working. I have Mac programming experience
but no Mac at the moment. I can probably get one soon, at which point I'll
start updating that portion of the tree, as well. To get it working
anytime soon, however, I'll need help. Anyone?
OR, if there are still any wxWindows people here, would anyone be up to
making a wx port of AbiWord? I've not used wx yet, but have wanted to. If
some people would be willing to do that, instead of a direct Mac port,
I'll help out some there.
Embedded Components:
Has anyone given this much thought yet? We need a cross-platform way to
interact with OLE, Bonobo, OpenParts, and Be and Mac models (whatever
those are).
It really shouldn't be too difficult, as all we need is calls
to: find and load component for data type A, give the component the data,
get the data from the component, make the component show it, and something
to get the necessary information to print it.
However, I think the real challenge will be finding a cross-platform way
to deal with storage.
Word Export:
How big is this to users? I think a lot of people receive Word docs, but
don't necessarily have to send Word docs. Of course, for those that do,
this is extremely important. Anyway, this will take a good sized chunk of
code in wv, but nothing really new or too complex, since we will always
take the simplest approach (no fastsaves, no weird SPRMs to simplify
SEP/PAP/CHP "compression", etc).
justin