Re: ANNOUNCE - Spatial AbiWord

On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Robert Staudinger wrote:

> Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 10:45:11 +0200
> From: Robert Staudinger <robert.staudinger@gmail.com>
> To: abiword-dev@abisource.com
> Subject: ANNOUNCE - Spatial AbiWord
>
>
> Announcing Spatial AbiWord
>
> Spatial AbiWord (tm) is a sister project (not to say a fork) of the

a branch, or perhaps a spork!

> successful AbiWord (tm) Word Processor. While AbiWord's slogan is
> "Word Processing for Everyone", Spatial AbiWord's slogan will be "Easy
> Word Processing for Everyone on GNOME". Spatial AbiWord will target
> Gtk/GNOME only.

> Spatial AbiWord is based on the current CVS HEAD source code of
> AbiWord and includes includes the following extra features:

What about Tabs. Users like Tabs, Tabs are the solution to everything,
Abiword needs more Tabs. And a Pony.

I hope this doesn't draw developers away from more important projects like
the the QT port of Abiword (valuable sponsorship for Trolltech) or
having a GIMP interface for Abiword with Palettes everywhere.

> The Spatial AbiWord source code is already available from AbiWord's
> CVS server. Interested people are invited to check out the
> JMM-DOUBLEGRAPHICS branch. Tarball snapshots will be released early
> next week. The Spatial AbiWord project will also provide Gentoo
> ebuilds in the future, as this is the best linux distribution out
> there and everybody should be using it.

I would use Gentoo only I'm waiting for it to finish compiling.
I lie, I already use FreeBSD (sometimes).

inSincerely

Alan Horkan
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
Received on Fri Apr 1 18:54:35 2005