Choose Life [Re: [Fwd: Re: Abiword1.99]]

From: Alan Horkan (horkana@maths.tcd.ie)
Date: Sun Jun 29 2003 - 10:56:45 EDT

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    On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:

    > > Sorry, Martin, but I have tried several themes and get the same result
    > > - OK in Gnome, but not in KDE. Following your suggestion that it may
    > > be concerned with GTK2, I have installed the latest .rpm. Now neither
    > > Abiword or the Gnome desktop will run. They immediately crash out.
    > > Fortunately I am doing these 1.99 experiments on a spare harddrive.
    > >
    >
    > Oh, now I am puzzled. Sounds like SUSE 8.2 has screwed up gtk 2.2
    > somehow.
    >
    > > I have received an off-list message saying that I should not have
    > > posted this problem on the list (unless I have completely
    > > mis-understood the message). Apparently I should have sought help
    > > from elsewhere and only posted to the list when the problem was
    > > solved, saying what the problem was, and how it was solved. I thought
    > > that user lists were for asking for help with problems. Sorry if I
    > > have inadvertently cantravened the rules of the list.
    > >
    >
    > Not at all. Please tell me who you that and I will tell his wrong. Feel
    > free to discuss any and all problems on the user list. That is what is
    > there for. We all learn from mistakes and abiword development and
    > debugging should be as transperent as possible. We have no secrets and
    > nothing to hide.

    That was me. That was not my intention at all.

    What I was trying to get at is that compile problems and long detailed
    attempts to track down a bug are more suited to the developer list than
    the user list.

    I suggested that using bugzilla would be a better place to sort out the
    detail that i did not of think would be of general interest to most users.

    I just want to keep unneccessary nitty gritty detail off the user list.
    the user list seems kind of dead to me, I would love to see more activity
    on the user list.
    I would love to here about how people are using abiword and if they are
    enjoying it and what stuff they feel might be missing, I dont know just
    more general interest pieces and maybe something for EA Zen to talk about
    in his weekly news.

    I also said that it hard to know when a problem is sufficently complex
    that it not so much a user issue as a developer issue.

    I was not very clear so I hope I am clearer about my intentions now.

    Sincerely

    Alan Horkan
    http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/

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