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AbiWord Weekly News #150

Submitted by stro on Sun, 2003-06-29 23:48. AbiWord
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The remainders of GUADEC, the death of the hash downloader, a new preferences mock-up, 2.0 beta, anti-abi advertising, Mac OS X and that has nothing to do with the more interesting stories, like Linux going to Congo schools and Microsoft using DRM to lockout other office competitors, all of this and screenshots are waiting within.
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Re: AbiWord Weekly News #150

Submitted by Norman on Mon, 2003-06-30 02:04.

Quote :

"It is only logical to assume, at least from Lachowiczian point of view, that GTK libraries will extract more GNOME functionality, ultimately turning the GNOME Desktop Environment into nothing more than "the damned panel." Picture it, three years from now: The Panel Project. On the history page, "Originally, the Panel was the focus of what was once termed 'The GNOME Desktop Environment....' In honour of that, to this day, we still don't offer user-editable menus. "

Something like this makes me really angry - The majority of Abiword users are GNOME users. However, to answer this damn quotation. I can imagine that in 3 years there will be at most 5-10 Abiword users, because GNOME is just to good to cooperate with enemies and with the great work of Ximian OpenOffice will be the rocking best Word Proccessor on earth and it will be integrated into GNOME very well.

Quote :

"People who love their resources ..."

People who love their resources don't like it when every stupid application reimplements things that have been done already within the GNOME desktop. Because as a result the memory consumption is twice as high - Thank you for removing dependencies by wasting the user's memory

Quote :

"HIGrrrification™"

Abiworrrrd™

Anyway, right now I like Abiword, but if they decide that Abiword should not depend on GNOME, which is the only desktop they will ever be really successful on, I will probably prefer OpenOffice as soon as it is ported - its developers aren't talking with so many rrrrs.

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