Re: Roadmap for AbiWord 3.0

From: J.M. Maurer <uwog_at_uwog.net>
Date: Mon Nov 16 2009 - 23:51:19 CET

> > I'm very aware that 3) will have great benefits as well, but the
> > drawback is that it is very likely to introduce bugs that need to be
> > ironed out. As soon as we release 3.0, we could merge this branch as
> > well.
> >
> > Comments? Better ideas?
>
> I like the idea of doing a 3.0, but might I humbly suggest that we get
> the XP+ theming issue in AbiWord ironed out for it? AbiWord still uses
> Windows 2000-style controls and on XP, Vista and 7 looks very dated. On
> the Windows builds, using icons from the Oxygen icon set as well would
> go a long way to making AbiWord look more like a modern app.

I have no real win32 development experience, but I'd take any
contribution to this affect and have it in 3.0.

Cheers!
  Marc
Received on Mon Nov 16 23:52:59 2009

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