Subject: Re: The 1.0 Jobs List ( :-)
From: Johan Stenfors (Johan.Stenfors@firstlinux.net)
Date: Fri Jun 16 2000 - 06:57:07 CDT
IMO, automatically numbered headings and TOC is just as important as Page numbering.
--- sam th <sam@uchicago.edu>
> wrote:
>With suitable apologies to AC, here's what I think Needs To Be Done.
>
>Features (before 0.9.0)
>--------------------------
>
>1) Page Numbering
>This is, IMHO, the most importnt thing missing in abiword. Page numbers
>are just a trivial combination of fields and footers. Fields currently
>work well for page numbers, and footers work properly in in the formatter.
>However, there is no way to insert footers other than text file hacking,
>which != Just Work. Before we got to 0.9.0, this needs to be added.
>
>2) The Be Port
>This port is by far the most behind (with the exception of the Mac, see
>below). To the best of my knowledge, it is missing
> - the Word Count dialog
> - the Insert Symbol dialog
> - the Goto dialog
> - the Field dialog
> - the Insert Date & Time dialog
> - the Paragraph dialog (there's a little implementation, but it
>doesn't look finished)
> - the Preferences dialog (same)
>Also, there are several *severe* usability issues, according to Ben Hall.
>He has expressed interest (thanks) in working on the port, but some
>serious coding needs to be done to get it up to speed.
>
>3) Fields
>This is obviously important to having a worthwhile release, and since it
>will involve a file format change, it needs to happen pre 1.0. However,
>it is currently in good, hands, so I wouldn't worry.
>
>4) Tabs dialog
>On the abiword-dev IRC channel (which everyone should check out) aaron
>said that he was potentially interested in working on shack's old patch
>for this. However, it isn't really high priority for 1.0
>
>5) Any other compatibility/platform issues
>Stuff that is broken on particular platforms really should be fixed.
>Rough parity would be nice for 1.0
>
>Bug Fixes (1.0)
>------------------------------------------
>
>1) CRASH bugs
>Currently, bugzilla lists 13 bugs that people (mostly me) have marked
>[CRASH]. I know Ben Hall recently posted a patch to fix 473 (the Be .abw
>save bug). It would be nice to kill most or all of these by 1.0.
>
>2) 757/764
>These are Word import bugs, having to do with Word's "smart" quotes. This
>affects lots of documents, and would therefore be nice to fix.
>Additionally, other Word import bugs would be nice to fix. We have the
>best word importer around, and it would be good to stay that way.
>
>3) All the non-latin-1 charset bugs
>There are too many of these to count. A good implementation of this might
>fix lots of them. Then again, this is an area in which I have no clue, so
>I'll be quiet now.
>
>4) All the other bugs - about 150
>We've (or mostly Aaron, Martin and Jesper) have made a BIG dent in
>bugzilla recently, but there is still a ways to go. It's all about
>perfection. :-)
>
>5) Speed optimization
>AbiWord is fast, but it can always be faster.
>Incidentally, does anyone know of useful profilers on unix other than
>gprof?
>
>Other Features (post 1.0)
>---------------------------------
>
>1) Word export
>Thanks to Jaime, this is now in the cards, but probably not before 1.0.
>Round trip is good, right Paul?
>
>2) Normal mode
>Aaron has expressed interest in working on this, which I find to be a
>nicer mode to work in on other word processors.
>
>3) More GNOME integration
>Here, it would be nice to have the gnome-print support that John Tunison
>created work. Also, component integration with Dia, Gnumeric, etc would
>be good.
>
>4) Mac Port
>Bryan Prusha made some progress on this back at the beginning of 0.7.9,
>but not much has happend since then.
>
>Well, that's it for now. I'm sure this will stir up some discussion.
>
>
> sam th
> sam@uchicago.edu
> http://www.abisource.com/~sam
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