Split view and stuff [Re: ambitions of Abi-word]

On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Martin Sevior wrote:

> Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 22:07:56 +1100
> From: Martin Sevior <msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au>
> To: Custodis <Custodis@zonnet.nl>
> Cc: AbiWord Dev list <abiword-dev@abisource.com>, abiword-user@abisource.com
> Subject: 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.

seems like a pretty huge project worthy of a whole other application

> 7. More embedable file types, particularly Gnumeric.
> 8. Full svg integration.
> 9. Maybe auto-word complete (if it's done right).

Ssh! Dont tell Hub. Maybe if it is _done right_ he wont hate it quite as
much as he hates what MSWord does.

> 10. Comments.
> 11. Cross references.
> 12. Read/write Maths to/from MS Word and RTF.

> 13. Split screen.

I assume you mean like a split view both showing differnt parts of the
same document? (what Gnumeric called Freeze Panes)

Hadn't noticed it before but there is already a request for Split screen
 http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3196
(although I'm not entirely clear if the report is really asking for what I
think you want)

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

Sincerely

Alan Horkan
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
Received on Sat Nov 19 20:06:46 2005