Re: Abiword in Maemo plataform

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> Hi Rob,
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> first of all, I'd like to introduce myself, and tell you guys about
> what we've been up to. I'm the team leader for INdT's Office Suite
> project.
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> Our team has five developers: Renato (whose work you've just started
> seeing), Daniel (which has just started working on OpenDocument Text
> support on AbiWord), Eduardo (who is porting Gnumeric to the Maemo
> Development platform), Luciano (who is working on OpenDocument
> Spreadsheet support on Gnumeric), and yours truly (I work with the
> non-sexy stuff: integration, patch management, project management, etc)
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> Given that, I'd like to propose the following, as our commitment,
> with regards to AbiWord, for the following 6-12 months:
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> - complete the port of AbiWord to the Maemo Development Platform,
> and other embedded platforms, in general;
> - decrease memory and resource usage of AbiWord (maybe during
> compile time, using configure arguments);
> - complete the read and write support of OpenDocument Text files on
> AbiWord;
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> To resume, the main goal of our team is to provide a complete Office
> Suite (Gnome Office) for the Maemo Development Platform (and thus, for
> any devices which use this platform), supporting fully the OASIS
> OpenDocument standard, and using as little resources as possible.
>

Hi Rodrigo,
           This is very exciting for us! We look forward to your help.

Can you look to see how the patch could be reconfigured to subclass our
UnixAppImpl and UnixToolbar code?

We particularly look forward to your group's help with the OSASIS document
filters. It is clearly where we need concentrated effort.

Have you had the chance to look through the various GOCollab/AbiCollab
documents and discussion?

It seems to me that this might be the killer application for N770.

A user has a need to update a document. (Through meeting a client, an idea
he just had or something else) he can pull out his N770, connect to his
document on his central server and update the document on his N770.

Or alternatively for a document under collaborative production he can call
up his colleague on his (Nokia cell-phone) start up a collaborative
session with his colleague using his N770 (his colleague could be either
on his own workstation or with his own N770) they update their document in
real time as they talk on the phone.

It seems to be a very nice marriage of Nokia connectivity and computer usage.

Cheers!

martin

One extra wrinkle on this is would be the abilitiy
> Robert Staudinger wrote:
>> Also i would like to vote against committing to CVS HEAD at this
>> point. If we trust ourselves only a bit 2.4 is not more than a few
>> weeks off with only bugfixes until there. So the patch will most
>> likely still apply after the release. Otherwise does "freeze" still
>> have a meaning when committing a > 5000 lines patch? With regards to
>> marketing AbiWord 2.4 as "maemo compatible", do we really want to risk
>> stability for marketing purposes or the marginal work of merging the
>> branches later? I don't think it's worth it because the hildon port is
>> available anyways and our main target group has been desktop users so
>> far.
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> I'm not a member of the AbiWord developer community (yet :D ), but I
> would like to give my opinion here too.
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> I completely agree with Robert, here. Though we tried to make our
> changes as little intrusive as possible, the patch is still too big to
> be applied directly on CVS HEAD. But still, the main reason why I
> believe a branch could be used is to make sure our changes are as
> generic as possible, making it easier to port AbiWord to other embedded
> platforms. (thus, giving the team more time to implement and review
> necessary changes)
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> Resuming: of course we (INdT) would like to see Maemo being
> officially supported on version 2.4.0 of AbiWord, but we do not mind
> having this patch merged later, if that means higher code quality. (in
> fact, we are ready to work on any modifications to our patch you might
> feel as necessary)
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>> That said i would like to thank all the people who made the port
>> possible and hope this issues can be sorted out to everyone's
>> satisfaction.
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> Thanks a lot :)
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> Best regards,
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> Rodrigo
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Received on Mon Jun 20 04:41:14 2005