On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Rodrigo Parra Novo wrote:
> > There are other distributions (like Puppy Linux for example) which are
> > interested in having as small as possible a version of Abiword and smaller
> > Presumably these changes could be done as compile options but ones which
> > would be used by default for platforms like Maemo.
>
> Great idea!
I'm hoping it was what the developers were doing to do anyway.
> > > > -remove all the /usr/share/doc found in the package... *sigh*
> >
> > > Yes, I am for. (The docs are available at www.abisource.com, and after
> > > all this is an internet tablet.) Is it possible to have the context help
> > > to point to abisource.com rather than localy? This would seem ideal.
> >
> > I have a strange feeling about this.
> > It might be safer and less brittle if we were to provide a single
> > local page of documentation
> Maemo has support for system notifications - they look a lot like
> Gnome's startup-notification library. I suppose that using
> notifications alleviate a lot the problem of making the user wait for
> the remote documentation to show up.
No, they really dont. Notifications don't make the wait any less
tedious (it may seem like a short wait to you but I'm impatient, the
software should wait on me) but notification do at least let you know
*something is happening* rather than the slowness giving you the
impression nothing at all is happening.
- Alan
Received on Wed Nov 9 02:17:25 2005
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