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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 20:49.

Nautilus opens read/write views of the AbiWord control. So all sorts of editing stuff is going to be on. To this effect, see my comments in http://www.gnomedesktop.org/comments.php?op=showreply&tid=8868&sid=1027&pid=8859&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0#8868

Now, Nautilus is both a file manager and a gereric Bonobo container. It only makes sense for it to have "media views", "spreadsheet views" and "word processor views" of the files it views/manager, and this adds no lines of code or bloat to Nautilus. I find it particularly useful that it does so. You want an extraordinarily dumb file manager, use ls. This isn't doing anything that Konqueror or Windows Explorer can't do.

In general, it takes a bit of work for you to bring up the AbiWord control - you can't just "stumble" across this, and start editing your document. You have to click on it, and select "View as Word Processor Document" from the view-types list. Double-clicking on the file brings up OpenOffice or AbiWord as an external editor.

I also disagree that it would be "VERY" confusing for users to have these features. They've already had them. And they don't seem to be very confused.

Dom

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