Subject: feature requests
From: Artur Meinild (arme@ruc.dk)
Date: Tue Dec 14 1999 - 07:18:12 CST
Hello!
I just recently discovered AbiWord, and evrything I've
seen so far is very cool! I like the idea about a fast
and efficient multiplatform wordprocessor.
I haven't tried the Linux version yet, but I've
installed the windows version on my NT 4.0 machine, and
I immediately noticed a few things that need to be
worked on. They are, in order of appearance :-)
1) Both the installation program and the abiword program
should be able to handle large fonts. I'm running
1280x1024 (with large fonts of course), and you can't
see the bottom of the text in any dialogs, this is
especially critical during the installation process.
2) My wheel mouse doesn't work, and that's a real
problem! Does AbiWord use the standard windows
scrollbars??? If it does, why doesn't mousewheel
scrolling work??? This *MUST* be fixed, else I can't use
the program, sorry (wheel mouse users get very addicted,
because it is at least 10 times as fast to scroll with
the wheel than to scroll normally with the pointer).
3) Drag'n'drop support from explorer. You can't drag a
RTF document into AbiWord, and I see no reason why... I
don't know if the Linux version supports drag'n'drop,
but since windows is basically a drag'n'drop OS, I find
it very weird, that there are no drag'n'drop support.
This is also one of those things you get used to...
Well, that was the most remarkable missing features I
noticed. As soon as this have been done, I can begin to
actually use the program, and I really want to do that,
because everything else in AbiWord looks so nice.
I am not a programmer myself, sorry, but I can always
come up with good ideas, in case anyone is "short"! ;-)
Comments are more than welcome!
Thanx, Artur
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