Re: ambitions of Abi-word

Hi all,

I would like to add:

15. Scripting with good handlers and user forms

16. Mail merge with Gnumeric and a good user interfase to filter data
from a specific map in Gnumeric

17. Past data from Gnumeric into Abi and past links to a specific cell
into Abi

18. Better support for large documents

19. User interfase for changing the default document format

20. Encrypting documents

Robby

Martin Sevior wrote:

>Hi everybody,
> Well my own priorities are:
>
>1. Make AbiWord's current features "Just Work".
>2. Implement AbiCollab - real-time document collaboration and
>preparation.
>3. Implement AbiDash - real-time intelligent search.
>
>Implementing these will distinguish AbiWord from other Document
>construction tools.
>
>That said, AbiWord boasts a number of very talented developers who may
>well (actually they definitely do :-)) have different priorities.
>
>Some other things that I'd love to see are (the numbers are the order in
>which I think of things to write):
>
>1. pluggable pango-based graphics class for complex scripts (Like Indix
>and Thai languaes.)
>2. AbiWord-lib so that AbiWord can be easily embedded in other apps.
>3. Full integration with libgsf so that AbiWord can load and store
>documents transparently over a network.
>4. Speed-ups for large documents. A fair bit of the problems have been
>identified and placed on our wiki.
>5. Finish the remaining table features (sort tables rows/columns, repeat
>rows on different pages).
>6. Graphical Math editor.
>7. More embedable file types, particularly Gnumeric.
>8. Full svg integration.
>9. Maybe auto-word complete (if it's done right).
>10. Comments.
>11. Cross references.
>12. Read/write Maths to/from MS Word and RTF.
>13. Split screen.
>14. sub-pixel text positioning.
>
>So there is plenty to keep us busy. I have no idea how much we'll
>complete for 2.6.
>
>What gets done depends on how much time and how motivated the AbiWord
>team is.
>
>Cheers
>
>Martin
>
>On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 10:35 +0100, Custodis wrote:
>
>
>>Michael A. Peters wrote:
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>>>On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 13:43 +0000, Alan Horkan wrote:
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>>>>We don't do voting because we do not want to give a false impression
>>>>things will happen just becuase someone votes for them.
>>>>
>>>>All the work on Abiword is done by volunteers* if they are interested in
>>>>doing it.
>>>>
>>>>There are certainly ways you can encourage developers to add certain
>>>>features, for example by providing clear and detailed descriptions of how
>>>>a feature should work (including screenshots, sample documents or any
>>>>other relevant information).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>I like the ideas of bug bounties - where users can submit a bug or RFE,
>>>it is determined to be worthy, and then users can donate to a bounty to
>>>pay a developer to implement them.
>>>
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>>I was thinking in an other direction. Perhaps student could be
>>interested to adopt features as a part in there (programming) education.
>>
>>
>>
>>>I believe gnome.org has a bounty system - but it seems that only
>>>corporations are able to participate in sponsoring bounties.
>>>
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Received on Sun Nov 20 08:10:56 2005