Re: ATTN: abiword 2.6.0 tagged and uploaded

J.M. Maurer wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 00:23 +0100, J.M. Maurer wrote:
>
>> Waaaaaaaaaaaaay overdue, but better late than never: I've just tagged
>> and uploaded 2.6.0 tarballs to:
>>
>> http://abisource.com/downloads/abiword/2.6.0/source/
>>
>> I'll come up with a release notes proposal tomorrow, which everyone can
>> then extend with his/her favorite changes, anecdotes, love stories, etc.
>>
>
> Please improve on this list:
>
> # A new Pango based renderer for Unix platforms, greatly improving
> support for languages such as Thai and Arabic
> # Ability to open files on remote shares, ie. samba, ftp or ssh shares
> (Unix platforms)
> # Improved the build system to be more standards conformant (for
> example, "make dist" and "make distcheck" now work)
> # Experimental AbiWord GTK+ widget, with accompanying Python bindings
> # Various toolbar improvements, most notably the improvements to make
> them work better on small screens (Unix platforms)
> # A massive amount of work on all of our popular import and export
> filters, most notably the OpenDocument filter
> # A new experimental collaboration plugin, allowing users to
> collaboratively work on the same document in real-time. There are
> currently 3 communication backends supported: an XMPP based one (only
> available on Unix systems, and it could use some love), a pure TCP/IP
> based one and one that integrates with the One Laptop Per Child Sugar
> interface. Please note that we consider this collaboration feature
> experimental, as it hasn't seen a lot of testing outside the One Laptop
> Per Child deployments. Also, we are not sure yet that we won't need to
> make slight protocol changes to accommodate some new features. This
> means that the current version of the plugin might not be able to
> communicate with future versions of the plugin.
> # A new GNOME Office integration plugin, replacing the old GNOME Office
> Charting plugin (Unix platforms)
> # Improved command line handling, allowing input from standard input,
> and output to be directed to standard output (examples here).
> # Improved printing from the command line, deprecating our previously
> used custom postscript driver
> # Lots of updates to our translations
> # Various drag & drop and clipboard handling improvements
> # Improved modularisations for resource constrained devices, such as
> optional printing and spelling support
> # Improved support for running AbiWord in non-UI mode (sometimes also
> referred to as "server" mode, as offered by the AbiCommand plugin); most
> notably the requirement for an X server on Unix systems has been
> removed.
> # Automatic font substitution using fontconfig when a specific font is
> not available (Unix platforms)
> # Lots of small fixes in our GTK+ frontend, such as fixing those pesky
> tooltips that just wouldn't go away (Unix platforms)
> # The addition of a new experimental OpenXML import filter
> # Improved start-up time on Windows systems
> # Support for native Windows Vista menus
> # Allow dragging and dropping images in and out of AbiWord (Unix
> platforms)
> # Fast image previews in the Image dialog, even for huge images (Unix
> platforms)
>
> Marc
>
>
>
Is Office OpenXML import first in this release? (I am pretty sure it is
and that we are packaging it on Windows too)

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