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List:       abiword-dev
Subject:    Re: Silly monkeys [Re: ATTN: AbiWord 2.5.0 released]
From:       msevior () physics ! unimelb ! edu ! au
Date:       2007-01-19 4:18:55
Message-ID: 3748.210.49.190.178.1169180335.squirrel () kiosk ! ph ! unimelb ! edu ! au
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>
> On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 20:10 +0000, Alan Horkan wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, J.M. Maurer wrote:
>>
>> > The AbiWord team is very proud to announce AbiWord v2.5.0, the first
>> > snapshot of the development that will lead to AbiWord 2.6.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> > New features of this release include (amongst others):
>>
>> ...
>>
>> >   * Support for the Bonobo component framework has been deprecated
>> (Unix
>> >     platforms)
>>
>> >   * Experimental AbiWord GTK+ widget, with accompanying Python
>> bindings
>>
>> Would I be correct in saying that this will be superceded (sort of) by
>> all
>> the work which has gone into abi widget or are they much more different
>> than that?
>
> In general, yes. The GTK Widget supercedes the old (bonobo based_
> approach.
>
>> Just generally interested to know, always wonder why this feature didn't
>> get more attention and praise than it did.  I'd be interested if anyone
>> is
>> still using the Bonobo component, perhaps for previews in Evolution but
>> with so few distributions including abiword by default I'd be surprised
>> if
>> there were any at all.  It is a shame the embedded abiword never quite
>> caught on (and if I recall correctly the Mozilla embedding used by OEone
>> didn't even use Bonobo, taking a simpler approach instead).
>>
>> Congratulations on the release, great to see Abiword and OLPC working so
>> well together.
>
> It seems that, finally, the full potential of embedding AbiWord has be
> realized. Very nice to see indeed.
>

Yes, for whatever reason, bonobo never took off amongst gnome developers.

Cheers

Martin

> Cheers,
>   Marc
>
>


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