From: Johan Björk (phearbear@home.se)
Date: Tue Jan 14 2003 - 10:19:52 EST
Dom Lachowicz wrote:
>AbiWord development has been progressing at a
>marvelous clip and it's getting to the point where we
>should put another big, fancy DOT-OH release out
>there.
>
>These past 8 months or so have seen an absolutely
>tremendous amount of work. The 2.0 release will be
>focussed on stabilizing and polishing those new
>features, adding a few remaining features, and making
>sure that we haven't regressed with regard to our
>previous (1.0) feature set.
>
>I said this before I released 1.0 - "This isn't to
>mark the end of AbiWord development, it marks the
>beginning." Well, 2.0 marks an incremental advancement
>towards that mythical end. 2.0 will have bugs. 2.0
>will lack features. This is to be expected. But we
>promise to do our best to keep the nasties to a
>minimum and incorporate missing features into future
>releases.
>
>Target Platforms:
>Win32
>*NIX (Linux, BSD, Solaris, XDarwin in particular)
>QNX
>
>If the MacOSX/Cocoa build progresses substantially, we
>might have an "experimental" release of it. I will not
>hold back the 2.0 release on MacOSX's behalf.
>
>At present, I'm using bug 4468 as a tracker bug for
>many of the issues that stand in the way of the 2.0
>release. 4468 is not complete, but we'll work on
>making it better represent how we want 2.0 to come
>out.
>
>Expected New Features (in addition to our current
>feature set):
>* Better mail merge UI
>* Gnome Port (GnomePrint, GAL toolbar widgets, and the
>Bonobo control only for now)
>
>Expected polish/bugfix/improved 2.0 features:
>* Tables (UI, interaction, imp/exp)
>* Footnotes (needs imp/exp to RTF, DOC)
>* Endnotes (make work again, imp/exp)
>* Revisions (make work properly, imp/exp)
>* BiDi
>* XFT fonts on unix
>* Unix printing
>* OpenOffice importer/exporter
>* Mail merge
>* Barbarisms
>
>Expected polish/bugfix/improvements over 1.0 features:
>* HTML import/export
>* GTK2 UI (ideally remove any deprecated
>widgets/functions, make work on both GTK 2.0 and 2.2)
>* XSL-FO import/export
>* Spelling problems
>* Help problems
>* Crash problems
>
How about making the 'Single Units' default and fixup that
feature?(..and add it to the list )
/Johan
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