RE: ANNOUNCE - Spatial AbiWord

Is this something to do with April 1st? :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-abiword-dev@abisource.com
[mailto:owner-abiword-dev@abisource.com]On Behalf Of Reinout van
Schouwen
Sent: 01 April 2005 12:16
To: abiword-dev@abisource.com
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE - Spatial AbiWord

On Apr 1, 2005 10:45 AM, Robert Staudinger <robert.staudinger@gmail.com>
wrote:

> + Removal of all bloat, including all the functionality that should be
> handeled by the desktop environment or file manager.
> + No file selectors at all for a spatial user interface, therefore no
> "Open", "Save As" or similar menus and toolbar items.
> + Create new documents by right-clicking in nautilus.
> + Insert images by dragging them into the document.
> + Rename documents using the file manager instead of "Save As".
> + No multi document interface.
> + The "File" menu will be further renamed to "Document" and all
> references to other documents like "Recent Documents" will be removed.
> + No standard toolbar, only the most important formatting tools.
> + Standards complicance through OpenDocument/SXW as default file format.
> + Removed "Help" menu, to make Spatial AbiWord feel really integrated
> with the desktop, rather than a standalone application.

You forgot "Instant save" :-)

Otherwise, it sounds too good to be true! ;-)

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