Re: gsoc08 progress week 1

Randy, Omer...

Rob's SoC project is to:

1) Port AbiWord's drawing routines to use Cairo
2) Make the GTK+ port of AbiWord use GtkPrint instead of GnomePrint
3) Make AbiWord's GTK+ port work on Win32

You're seeing a combination of #1 and #3. This has nothing to do with
Arabic numerals or About dialogs.

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Randy Kramer <rhkramer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Friday 30 May 2008 08:36 am, Robert Staudinger wrote:
>> please find attached my visual status report after the first week of
>> working on the project.
>>
>> http://www.abisource.com/~robsta/gsoc08/02-abiword-win32.png
>
> Rob,
>
> I really don't know what your project(s?) is intended to do, but if it is to
> make an improved "about" popup, I have a pet peeve on that subject.
>
> Why doesn't the about popup for a piece of software at the very least say what
> the application is ("abiWord is a word processor") and either provide a brief
> explanation of what a word processor is, or provide a link or something to a
> description.
>
> Maybe not terribly relevant to abiword (at least for most of us), because I
> think most people know (or will recognize) that abiword is a word
> processor--ahh, but wait, what about those just starting to get exposed to
> computers, for example, via the OLPC project?
>
> There are a fair number of applications (not abiWord) that I've started and
> then tried to use the "about" popup to find out what it was (because it
> wasn't obvious to me), and there was nothing there to help me.
>
> Randy Kramer
>

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