Re: ambitions of Abi-word

Hi everybody,
             Well my own priorities are:

1. Make AbiWord's current features "Just Work".
2. Implement AbiCollab - real-time document collaboration and
preparation.
3. Implement AbiDash - real-time intelligent search.

Implementing these will distinguish AbiWord from other Document
construction tools.

That said, AbiWord boasts a number of very talented developers who may
well (actually they definitely do :-)) have different priorities.

Some other things that I'd love to see are (the numbers are the order in
which I think of things to write):

1. pluggable pango-based graphics class for complex scripts (Like Indix
and Thai languaes.)
2. AbiWord-lib so that AbiWord can be easily embedded in other apps.
3. Full integration with libgsf so that AbiWord can load and store
documents transparently over a network.
4. Speed-ups for large documents. A fair bit of the problems have been
identified and placed on our wiki.
5. Finish the remaining table features (sort tables rows/columns, repeat
rows on different pages).
6. Graphical Math editor.
7. More embedable file types, particularly Gnumeric.
8. Full svg integration.
9. Maybe auto-word complete (if it's done right).
10. Comments.
11. Cross references.
12. Read/write Maths to/from MS Word and RTF.
13. Split screen.
14. sub-pixel text positioning.

So there is plenty to keep us busy. I have no idea how much we'll
complete for 2.6.

What gets done depends on how much time and how motivated the AbiWord
team is.

Cheers

Martin

On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 10:35 +0100, Custodis wrote:
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> Michael A. Peters wrote:
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> >On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 13:43 +0000, Alan Horkan wrote:
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> >>We don't do voting because we do not want to give a false impression
> >>things will happen just becuase someone votes for them.
> >>
> >>All the work on Abiword is done by volunteers* if they are interested in
> >>doing it.
> >>
> >>There are certainly ways you can encourage developers to add certain
> >>features, for example by providing clear and detailed descriptions of how
> >>a feature should work (including screenshots, sample documents or any
> >>other relevant information).
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> >>
> >
> >I like the ideas of bug bounties - where users can submit a bug or RFE,
> >it is determined to be worthy, and then users can donate to a bounty to
> >pay a developer to implement them.
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> >
> I was thinking in an other direction. Perhaps student could be
> interested to adopt features as a part in there (programming) education.
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> >I believe gnome.org has a bounty system - but it seems that only
> >corporations are able to participate in sponsoring bounties.
> >
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Received on Sat Nov 19 13:07:00 2005