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AbiWord Weekly News #137

Submitted by stro on Sun, 2003-03-30 13:13. AbiWord

Bonobo work is progressing so rapidly, that I swear I just saw it inside of Nautilus the other day...actually, I did. SuSE in, SuSE out, SuSE's back on again if you're looking for packages for that dangerous distribution, thanks to James Ogley. More HIGrrrification^(TM) under development with three screenshots hidden in their own section of the developers' list. GNOME-enable'ers, fear not, it's not you, it's that french guy...Hub declares a great owing of donuts.

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Re: AbiWord Weekly News #137

Submitted by doml on Sun, 2003-03-30 18:45.

Well, it is useful to preview your documents within the file manager without having to actually open up AbiWord or OpenOffice. The control is also re-usable by any application that needs a rich-text editing control (eg: Evolution mailer). The ability to use any Bonobo control inside of Nautilus was a major thing that the user community wanted (and got) from Nautilus 2.0.

If your complaint is that your file is editable within Nautilus, well, I suppose that's a fairly valid complaint, or at least one that should be considered. But, simply put, that isn't policy that AbiWord should dictate - it should be dicated by Nautilus itself. For example, the AbiWord 1.0 Bonobo control was editable and could display MSWord/AbiWord email attachments inside of Evolution. But they weren't editable inside of Evolution. Evolution wouldn't let them be.

AbiWord is one of the few Bonobo controls capable of editing its contents. The Bonobo-Activation "server" file sets the "bonobo:editable" argument to "true," because it's quite likely that user of (say) Gnumeric would want to embed a MSWord document inside of their Excel Spreadsheet and want to edit that. If you don't think that Nautilus' preview components should be editable, please go file a bug against Nautilus or start a discussion on their mailing list. Gnomedesktop isn't the appropriate forum.

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