Re: ambitions of Abi-word

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Subject: Re: ambitions of Abi-word
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 07:52:27 +0100
From: Custodis <Custodis@zonnet.nl>
To: J.M. Maurer <uwog@uwog.net>
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J.M. Maurer wrote:

>>>First and in advance I would like to apologize for my limited language
>>>abilities. I’m not used to write English texts. I’m Dutch, so most
>>>
>>>
>>... likely your English will be better than most native speakers.
>>
>>Uwog (one of the developers) is dutch too.
>>
>>
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>If he is dutch, he must be a really cool guy!
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>>>I would very much like:
>>>- a roadmap for Abi in general, so the ambitions are Clair to everybody.
>>>
>>>
>>[Clair ... clear]
>>
>>Depends very much on what the developers decide to do.
>>
>>
>
>We don't exactly know what to do with future versions, we're trying to
>figure that out at the moment (at least I am) :)
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>
May suggest a brain writhing session. Let everyone just ad features in a
editable list without judging them. Then order them in some categories
that seem to be logical. Than vote on features (fore / against) and
(basic code / plugin) and (soon / later / some day). Than ask developers
to adapt a feature. Make a final screened list with items every one is
for with the developers names (you could also ad items that are still in
discussion and mark them as such). I've very good experience with this
techniek.

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>>>What are Abi-Words ambitions?
>>>
>>>
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>AbiWord itself does not has ambitions. It all depends on what
>contributers feel like adding. It's mostly an unstructured process.
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>>There are various plugins which can expand the Image support in Abiword.
>>The ImageMagick plugin for example adds quite a large amount of image
>>formats (might only be available on Linux, must check).
>>
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>Note to Alan: I deleted the ImageMagick plugin about 3 months ago.
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? Why ?

>>>- way can’t Abi handle big documents? The program itself uses less
>>>memory than Word or Writer so that can’t be the problem.
>>>
>>>
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>That's for the biggest part a problem of AbiWord's internal design. The
>issues involved are known, someone 'just needs to implement the better
>design'.
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Oke, clear!

>>>- will Abi change the default document format to ‘odt’ like OOo did?
>>>
>>>
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>Very unlikely. You can make it your default format if you wish though
>using a setting in your profile. At the moment it is rather useless
>though, as ODT export has not landed yet.
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>

Oke

>Marc
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Thanks for the insights...

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Received on Fri Nov 18 14:28:18 2005