From: Ryan Pavlik (abiryan_at_ryand.net)
Date: Fri Apr 09 2004 - 16:33:09 EDT
Christian Neumair wrote:
>On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 13:48 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote:
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>>Since I'm currently redesigning the UNIX Preferences dialog, I've come
>>across various preferences that can in my opinion be removed for all
>>platforms. Comments/discussion is appreciated.
>>[...
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>> id_CHECK_SPELL_INTERNET
>>Spell-check URLs?! Can't we simply be smart about words starting with
>>someprotocol://?
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That's an enchant/spellchecker issue, I think, I think it would be
rather a hack for Abi to implement it in its main code. Possible,
though. It doesn't work for me anyway, though, so...
>> id_SHOWSPLASH
>>Branding is nice. Showing a splash as well. Dunno, maybe I'm misguided,
>>having a GUI for it makes me feel strange, though.
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This one I can answer. Don't remove it: Most default users will want
it, have it default for branding. However, some people like to turn off
these sort of things to speed response (I know I used to...), hence the
GUI. It can load a little faster with it off.
>> id_CHECK_ENABLE_SMOOTH_SCROLLING
>>Is it CPU expensive?
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When you're running it on minimum requirements, where AbiWord can really
outshine, yes.
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>> id_CHECK_AUTO_LOAD_PLUGINS
>>Why shouldn't we load plugins?
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Probably in case a plugin is buggy and you can't load Abi to turn it off.
>Could somebody please investigate them?
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>regs,
> Chris
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