Subject: Re: Loss of enthusiasim for AbiWord
From: Pierre Abbat (phma@webjockey.net)
Date: Fri Feb 08 2002 - 08:35:05 CST
On Friday 08 February 2002 08:54, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
> This is an expression of frustration.
>
> For well over a year a serious issue caused by AbiWord has been known.
> The lack of interest in addressing this issue has just about deflated
> my interest in AbiWord. While other major changes are going into
> Abi (like multithreaded loading), and other minor changes (e.g.
> named colors like "lightblue") a basic operational issue goes unaddressed:
> http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1030
>
> It's the top voted bug too:
> http://bugzilla.abisource.com/showvotes.cgi?bug_id=1030
>
> And features prominently in other bug systems:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58907
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18855
>
> Yet it's been closed (as "irrelevant") several times, and it's
> been called "nowhere near a priority". Patches for the bug get ignored.
> This attitude towards the health and welfare of
> other programs running on Linux harms AbiWord, and it's a shame.
It used to be that anything in Courier Bold in kwrite would appear scrawny
and in the wrong width if I started kwrite while AbiWord was running. If I
exit Abi and kwrite and restart kwrite, the font looks fine. Now Courier Bold
looks scrawny no matter when I start it. What is going on, and how can I fix
this?
phma
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b25 : Fri Feb 08 2002 - 08:35:40 CST