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List:       abiword-dev
Subject:    Re: call for participation: make libabiword a usable gtk widget
From:       "Martin Sevior" <msevior () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-01-01 1:25:56
Message-ID: 6d78b3860812311725r53b15215uea45c7b0d1995be2 () mail ! gmail ! com
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Hi Fabian,
              We certainly intend to maintain and improve libabiword.
Getting this kind of direct feedback and motivation helps enormously
as right now our only real customer for libabiword is OLPC Write and
we work consistently to full fill their needs.

Right now my priority is to fix the bugs in our new cairo-canvas.

Cheers

Martin




On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Fabian Sturm <f@rtfs.org> wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I am trying to write a filecard learning program in my spare time.
> This program should have a couple of unique features. One of them would
> be the ability to create filecards with complex mathematical formulas.
> Therefore I started to use libabiword as a widget for filecard display.
> Since I am writing the program in C# I also created the abiword-sharp
> language binding.
>
> But unfortunately my progress is very slow. Not only because I had not
> much spare time but also because I need several non trivial (at least
> for me) adjustments to the libabiword library.
>
> Therefore my call for participation here.
>
> First of all I would like to know where the libabiword library should be
> heading? Would you support necessary adjustment to get the library into
> a usable gtk widget?
>
> Are there plans to get the library packaged for the various distros?
> This would make it easier for developers to use the library in their
> projects. I know that the api is not yet stable, but I still think it
> would make sense to have it packaged. E.g. I would otherwise need to
> include libabiword, the .net binding and the program in one package to
> be buildable.
>
> A zoom behaviour appropriate for a widget, e.g. no fixed page size.
> Martin already implemented it (thanks!!), but unfortunately I got
> sidetracked at that time and could not get it to work right now.
>
> I also added a couple of bugs/patches to the bugtracker and would do so
> in the future if it makes sense. Some of them got already integrated,
> thanks for that! But unfortunately there are bugs that I can't solve
> myself or would at least need a substantial amount of help.
>
> E.g. currently open
>
> 11304 add set_content to libabiwidget
> 11348 inconsistency with set zoom percentage
> 11351 The sensitive setting has no visual effect on the abiwidget
> 11367 A changed signal would be handy for the abiwidget
> 11369 The cursor in the abiwidget behaves strange
> 11370 The abiwidget can't be easily set to readonly
> 11718 libabiword is not package in the ubuntu ppa
> 11895 libabiword content_lenght, selection_lenght returns char ...
>
> Thanks in advance, and hoping for a positive reply,
> Fabian
>
> P.s. I will try to stay on irc as often as possible, as tantris.
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