> Next is AbiWord. Why was it not stripped of support for most file > formats? Microsoft Word .doc is proprietary and should be removed, > not to mention it's useless for children using XO -- none of their > classmates or teachers will be using Microsoft Word.
> AbiWord's own format should be removed because its useless for > interoperability It is _required_ for collaboration, so it can't even technically be removed. > and ODT does a fine job by itself. ... that's why has been the default for 2 months now. > RTF? Who uses RTF these days? The whole web is filled with it. > This is all bloat and has no point for the children. I tend disagree. > OpenDocument should be the default format for saving new documents and > open older ones. It already is > HTML support makes sense if children will put stuff on the Web, and if > so, HTML should be kept in its simple form, no Multipart HTML crap, > which doesn't even work on XULRunner, anyway. Plain text support is > always a good idea, after all, Linux is all about editing text files > :) However, I have no idea what "Encoded Text" is. That's why encoded text is not in the UI. > Other character sets besides ANSI? Useless. It only confuses the children. Agreed, see above. > Appropriate handling of character encodings should not force seperate > text formats. Actually it's not even a problem anymore with Unicode > around. > > If it could export PDF as OpenOffice does then Abi would become quite > useful. That's not the case, right now. I heard there's an > unofficial plugin to do this. Maybe worth looking at? No need fo unofficial plugin: AbiWord core can already save PDF's, but currently printing support is disabled altogether. We require libgnomeprint for PDF output. I'm willing to enable this if the need arises. Regards, Marc _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
