Re: Re: Maemo Word Processor

Hello Rodrigo,

as AbiWord developers we are very interested to also hear about the
problems you had with our software. Did you discover weaknesses, did
your testing reveal any problems, are you interested in better support
for any particular file format?
Feel free to post to our mailing list and/or create bugzilla entries.

Cheers,
- Rob

On 5/25/05, Dom Lachowicz <domlachowicz@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I thought that the dev list would like to see this.
> Nokia has a new desktop handheld device based on
> GTK+/Gnome, and uses a patched version of AbiWord
> 2.2.7 as its word processor. More info here:
>
> http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/25/139202&tid=100&tid=193&tid=106
>
> What follows is a short conversation with one of
> Nokia's developers.
>
> This looks promising :)
>
> Best,
> Dom
>
> --- "rodrigo.novo@indt.org.br"
> <rodrigo.novo@indt.org.br> wrote:
> > Subject: Re: Maemo Word Processor
> > Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 12:55:56 -0500
> > From: "rodrigo.novo@indt.org.br"
> > <rodrigo.novo@indt.org.br>
> > To: <hub@figuiere.net>
> > CC: <domlachowicz@yahoo.com>,
> > <Aldenor.Martins@indt.org.br>
> >
> > > From: Hubert Figuiere [mailto:hub@figuiere.net]
> > > Hi Rodrigo,
> >
> > Hi Hubert,
> >
> > > I'm one of the AbiWord maintainer.
> >
> > I know, I always read your blog on Gnome Planet
> > :)
> >
> > > I downloaded the deb package of Maemo Word
> > Processor that I
> > > downloaded from
> > http://www.indt.org.br/maemo/index.html#abiword
> > >
> > > I was wondering where we could get the source
> > code, and/or the diffs.
> >
> > Sure.
> >
> > First of all, I would like to personally
> > apologize to you and all the rest of the AbiWord
> > team. I sent the source code of the package to our
> > web designers, but I guess they were in a bit of a
> > hurry, this morning. (to upload the web pages before
> > Maemo was announced)
> >
> > I've just checked, and the source code is already
> > uploaded by now, and linked on the web site. (I
> > tried to send it to you via email, but the source
> > code is too large for that)
> >
> > > We would be interested in merging the changes back
> > to upstream.
> >
> > Sure. That would be nice! This is our main
> > objective right now.
> >
> > As the Maemo Development Platform was not public
> > (until today) we were not able to contact the
> > AbiWord team to contribute back our code, but we
> > would like to do this as soon as possible. (and
> > when/if you feel the code is of acceptable quality,
> > of course)
> >
> > The only reason why we call it "Maemo Word
> > Processor" right now, is because we are/were not
> > distribution an official version of AbiWord (I mean,
> > we weren't even sure if we *could* call it AbiWord)
> >
> > Right now, the modifications we did are a little
> > more than a hack above the Unix layer of the AbiWord
> > UI. Though we added a --enable-hildon flag to
> > configure (hildon is the name of the gtk-based
> > widget set developed by Nokia for the Maemo
> > Development Platform), we had to modify a few
> > dialogs, to make the application fit inside the
> > (very) small screen size.
> >
> > How do you think it is better for us to further
> > discuss the integration of our changes back to the
> > AbiWord source tree? I understand that we will need
> > to clean up some hacks we had to implement to make
> > it work better on Maemo, and we would be glad to
> > have the help of the AbiWord team for that, if at
> > all possible :)
> >
> > > Thanks a lot
> >
> > Thank YOU, for AbiWord :)
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Rodrigo
> >
>
>
>
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Received on Fri May 27 10:20:58 2005