Subject: Re: feature requests
From: Robert Sievers (bob@abisource.com)
Date: Tue Dec 14 1999 - 16:45:42 CST
At 02:18 PM 12/14/99 +0100, Artur Meinild wrote:
>I immediately noticed a few things that need to be
>worked on. They are, in order of appearance :-)
Let me give you some idea about where we *officially* stand on each of
these. As always, remember that at any point in time, one of the 400
million people with a computer may choose to permanently rectify the
situation.
>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.
Yes, this is ugly. The installation program currently doens't have anybody
to watch over it. Although this is something we will definitely fix for
the official 1.0 package, it's fairly low on our list of priorities. You
are right in that will be become very important as more time goes by.
>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).
This is bug #655,
http://www.abisource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=655
If anybody wants to volunteer to look at this, please know that you can now
be a hero for multiple people.
>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...
Drag and drop will likely be a post 1.0 feature. Basically, most of the
people who are working on AbiWord right now fall into the Linux camp. The
Windows side really has to focus in order to keep up. As more Windows
developers come on board, drag and drop will continue to become more likely
to get added.
Please do not interpret any of my comments in a negative light. AbiWord
1.0 is not the ultimate goal, it is just the beginning. More importantly,
as part of an Open Source community, nothing I say is written in stone. If
I claim that "bug fix X" isn't important right now, anyone can always step
up and prove me wrong.
Robert Sievers
Open Source Evangelist
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