From: Michael D. Pritchett (mpritchett@attglobal.net)
Date: Mon Jan 27 2003 - 09:32:19 EST
On 27 Jan 2003, Gabriel Gerhardsson wrote:
> Hi
>
> As you might have noticed, I haven't been around much lately. It's
> mostly because I've had *alot* to do, for a very long time now. Along
> the way my motivation for working on the hash downloader has just about
> disappeared, along with a rising feeling that the feature doesn't fit
> and is plain wrong. Sure it's a nice thing, having the dictionary
> automaticly downloaded with a single accepting click, but maybe it
> doesn't belong in AbiWord after all.
Hi Garbiel.
I concur with your sentiment concerning the hash downloader. I do not
expect my word processor to access the internet and download data for me
with or without a dialog. In my opinion it is bloat and a little viral
especially if and when the download site no longer exists - say 10 years.
But as I build my own version from sources it is not that big of a problem
for me. I don't know what the "user" community thinks of this feature and
its benefits and therefore I leave it to better heads to determine if it
belongs in AbiWord sources and to maintain it.
Cheers!
Michael D. Pritchett
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