Re: OpenDocument annoyance list - reward?

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, [ISO-8859-1] Jean-François Fortin wrote:

> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 21:36:52 -0500
> From: "[ISO-8859-1] Jean-François Fortin" <web.kiddo@free.fr>
> To: Alan Horkan <horkana@maths.tcd.ie>
> Cc: AbiWord Developer Mailing List <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
> Subject: Re: OpenDocument annoyance list - reward?
>
>
> Le mercredi 29 novembre 2006 à 01:53 +0000, Alan Horkan a écrit :
> > I am seriously considering printing/burning copies of theOpenCD and giving
> > them out to various people, it might stop or at least discourage people
> > from asking me for pirate software. (Maybe not, didn't realise they
> > dropped Abiword, oh well there's always portable Abiword.)
>
> Well, I have been doing that increasingly since I switched to using
> fully FOSS... I used to be the "lend me this very expensive office suite
> software" guy, now I just refuse and install OpenOffice, Abiword, GIMP,
> and so on. It feels all good inside!
>
>
> > > 10029 automatic column breaks for wrapping
> > http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10029
> > Not sure how I understand this request, abiword behaves much the same
> > as Microsoft Word 2000.
>
>
>
> > > 10085 opening multiple documents resets user preferences
> > I commented on this earlier, the behaviour you are seeing may well be
> > intentional, either that or I'm misunderstanding the description.

> I commented back, basically I don't have any problem having abiword
> saving preferences according to the last closed document, and that's not
> the problem I'm experiencing. What I see here is that if I open multiple
> documents at once, they will bork up Abiword's user preferences
> (reactivate the splash image, put the units back in inches, etc), and
> that should definitely not happen. I did not change any settings myself,
> they just reset when I opened more than 1 document at the same time o_o.
> Which can be pretty dangerous and might be an iceberg of some kind imho.

> deleting" and "rewriting". Then it assumes the profile does not exist or
> is corrupt and creates a new one. That's my very uneducated guess, could
> that be the problem?

sounds entirely plausible. What should probably happen is that the file
should not be deleted at all when read at startup. If an update is needed
the new file should be written to disk and then moved in place, only
deleting the old version at the last moment before putting in the new
version in place.

> > > 9865 add aspect ratio locking when holding the shift key - pre...
> > > 9451 Font defaults to "Times New Roman" even when it is not installed
> >
> > hysterical raisins! [1]

> I'm laughing out loud at that one. Wikipedia saved my life once again.
> Now, I understand that the "fonts" issue is for hysterical raisins, but
> I don't know why the image "aspect ratio hotkey" would be... In anyway,

> it certainly is not very practical resizing without aspect ratio or
> using the image properties dialog (which, by the way, uses inches as the
> unit, but that's another bug report).

nothing to do with the aspect ratio stuff, just didn't delete that line
from my reply

> > i dont remember even being able to do nested tables in OpenOffice (maybe
> > one nested table, no deeper) but it has been a while and version 2 can do
> > nested tables (to more depth than I'll ever need).

> I just tried out of curiosity in Writer, you can make unlimited nested
> tables levels. I don't usually use tables, but lots of other people do,
> and very often when the tables are messed up, pretty much the entire
> document falls apart, sadly...

they must have improved nested tables to allow better compatibility with
messed up word documents. word processing and desktop publishing are
quite different and it all gets very messy when people try to pretend
otherwise.

> > Depending on what you mean it is already possible, you just need to drage
> > those little handles in the rulers to adjust the column width.

> Hm, a nice feature I did not know of, but it's not quite what I was
> thinking about, those handles and margins apply to all columns,

okay I see now it wasn't what you were asking.

-- 
Alan