Re: AbiWord 2.2.9: Autopackage, Plugins, HTML Plugin

On 9/25/05, Randy Kramer <rhkramer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the reply!
>
> On Sunday 25 September 2005 06:31 am, Robert Staudinger wrote:
> > On 9/23/05, Randy Kramer <rhkramer@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Please check with 2.3.99 (aka 2.4 beta) and file the bug if it's still
> > there.
>
> Hmm:
>
> * Downloaded 2.3.99 (autopackage and installed it)--doesn't seem to
> work--when I attempt to start abiword I briefly see the splash screen (must
> be the new one for 2.4, as it looks different than the one I had yesterday),
> but the splash screen closes and abiword never appears. No abiword in ps
> -Al, either. Should I have deleted the old abiword first? I'll try that
> now.

Thanks for trying.
Please start AbiWord from the command line and send eventual error messages.
Please also try deleting the AbiGOChart plugin and starting again.

> * I perhaps should have mentioned (with respect to abiword closing when I
> attempted to install plugins) that I have no plugins--maybe the problem only
> occurs if no plugins exist.
>
> > AbiWord contains a builtin xhtml importer. Dunno how it compares to
> > the importer plugin though.
>
> With whatever version of abiword I had (not sure if I tried it with 2.1.9 or
> only the version of abiword that I had prior to installing 2.1.9), I loaded a
> very short HTML file (10 lines) and the HTML tags were shown as syntax
> highlighted syntax--that's not what I'd expect if the HTML were truly
> imported (right?)
>
> Aside: Also, yesterday, I loaded about a 2 MB plain text file and it took 20+
> minutes, used 40% of my 384 MB of RAM (even after the load was complete),
> used 75 to 95% of the CPU while loading (400 MHz Pentium something), and
> continued to use 15 to 20% of the CPU after the load was complete (but abi
> was otherwise idle). Is this to be expected? (This was with 2.1.9.)

Please log bugs to bugzilla so they don't get lost.

Thanks,
Rob
Received on Sun Sep 25 22:49:07 2005