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AbiWord Weekly News #150

Submitted by stro on Sun, 2003-06-29 23:48. AbiWord

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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Submitted by EAZen on Mon, 2003-06-30 15:59.

I think you're just angry because I hit the nail on the head with that menu bit.

GTK's (and other under-layers) functionality, as Dom explained, will make it unnecessary to support an even more extensive specialty port to GNOME itself. For now, however, the --enable-gnome isn't going anywhere soon. The hope, however, is that ultimately, it'll be like a qt app in KDE -- it'll function very nicely without a couple of megs of extending code.

Don't let Dom's secret lust for QT throw you off!

Finally, a note about HIGrrrification�. HIG comes from Human Inteface Guidelines. I'm sure you know that. But, Grrr comes from Michael's dislike of, I believe, re-coding the interface for GLADE2. He was the only one really grumbling about it in that thread, but just about everyone seemed to believe the libglade2 thing was a good idea. Of course, if I just used HIGification, I'd be as boring as everyone else...like Dom ;o)

Now, why don't you explain to my why you'd rather wait those three years for Open Office (which takes more resouces even if there was all this excessive re-coding you're hallucinating) when you can use a very integrated AbiWord now? --enable-gnome too hasslesome? Did you ever think that in those three years, the libraries that GNOME is built on may have that functionality as already explained? That could really make your turkey dry, couldn't it?

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