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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 Anonymous George on Mon, 2003-03-31 06:23.

I think this could be very handy. And I don't really understand the usability issues that people keep talking about with regards to this.
I've had to deal with a lot of novice users in the past, and the most confusing thing for them seems to be when windows start opening.
For example, a user double-clicks on a Word document (and probably they didn't even mean to double-click, but that's a different issue). Suddenly a new window opens up, covering up the explorer interface. "What happened to my window?" "I didn't mean to do that, where's the back button?"
So, if you double click on a document, it should keep the same frame that was there before (including a back button), but with the contents of the document displayed and in editable form if I have sufficient permissions. The only time a new window should open is when the user explicitely asks for it.

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