On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 20:10 +0000, Alan Horkan wrote:
>
> On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, J.M. Maurer wrote:
>
> > The AbiWord team is very proud to announce AbiWord v2.5.0, the first
> > snapshot of the development that will lead to AbiWord 2.6.
>
> ...
>
> > New features of this release include (amongst others):
>
> ...
>
> > * Support for the Bonobo component framework has been deprecated (Unix
> > platforms)
>
> > * Experimental AbiWord GTK+ widget, with accompanying Python bindings
>
> Would I be correct in saying that this will be superceded (sort of) by all
> the work which has gone into abi widget or are they much more different
> than that?
In general, yes. The GTK Widget supercedes the old (bonobo based_
approach.
> Just generally interested to know, always wonder why this feature didn't
> get more attention and praise than it did. I'd be interested if anyone is
> still using the Bonobo component, perhaps for previews in Evolution but
> with so few distributions including abiword by default I'd be surprised if
> there were any at all. It is a shame the embedded abiword never quite
> caught on (and if I recall correctly the Mozilla embedding used by OEone
> didn't even use Bonobo, taking a simpler approach instead).
>
> Congratulations on the release, great to see Abiword and OLPC working so
> well together.
It seems that, finally, the full potential of embedding AbiWord has be
realized. Very nice to see indeed.
Cheers,
Marc
Received on Tue Jan 16 00:11:16 2007
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Tue Jan 16 2007 - 00:11:17 CET