Re: AbiWord is too buggy for Bonita

msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:

>Hi Michael,
> It's nice to here for you again.
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>>Her main problems were screen refresh problems. AbiWord spent so much
>>time redrawing the screen that she had trouble even entering her text.
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>Yuck! I'd hoped we were well past these problems now.
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>>There were also lots of bugs in the screen drawing. For example, she
>>was able to repeatedly reproduce a bug in which clicking the mouse would
>>cause a screen shot of the lower right portion of the screen to appear
>>in AbiWord's window, only to disappear when she released the mouse.
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>>That is, she'd see her clock, and the icons that are at the opposite end
>>of the bar where the start menu is, some of her desktop, and a piece of
>>abiword's window frame and window contents stuck in the middle of her
>>abiword document window.
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>This is very strange and certainly nothing I've seen on the Linux build. I
>would be most interested inknowing if there are bugzilla bugs describing
>this behaviour.
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This sounds to me like a bug I found a while ago, and is now fixed in
2.2 and probably before. By any chance was the taskbar set to
auto-hide? I think AbiWord wasn't redrawing on re-hiding of the
taskbar. If this indeed is the case, that bug is fixed.

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>>On another occasion, she had written less than a page of text, when she
>>selected a single paragraph. AbiWord then "exploded" her text into
>>eight pages. She showed me that the insertion caret on one page had
>>become three inches tall.
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>Do you mean the size of the text increased so much that it filled 8 pages,
>or that same paragraph was repeated so often it filled 8 pages?
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As I mentioned in another email, this is bug 8094. If you have any
additional information on it, please check it out and add it to the report!

>we are very well aware that a users first experience is absolutely
>critical. Have you been following the discussion we've had with Rick
>Shaut, a microsoft developer of MS Word?
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>http://blogs.msdn.com/rick_schaut/archive/2005/03/13/394808.aspx
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>One of the ways we can "compete" with MS despite the incredible disparity
>of resources is to engage our users. We really need them to help us. So
>the blunt response "File a bug report" is the first thing we say to anyone
>reporting a bug. The bugs you report here are all really bad. I want to
>get them fixed. I don't know if they're present in the Linux build but if
>you can show us how to trigger them rest assured they will be attended to.
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>So that's easily the best way you can help. Show us in short simple steps
>how to trigger the bugs and put them in bugzilla. They are certainly bad
>enough to warrent placed at a high priority.
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>Your help fixing them would be appreacted too.
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>Cheers
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>Martin
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