Hopefully we can do something like this during installation, where
the install procedure remembers where it put things like fonts,
and sticks them in the /[prefix]/AbiSource/etc directory, under
a system-wide rc file (those directories are approximate). That
way, the first time a user runs AbiWord, it just inherits the
system settings and saves them out to the ~/.AbiSource if things
get changed. This is more of an installer issue, but needs some
support in the executable.
-- Shaw Terwilliger