Re: my opinion of Abiword, including suggestions for improvement

Hi Sander,

If you'd be kind enough to file these suggestions in
our bugzilla, it would be appreciated. Requests for
enhancements mentioned on mailing lists tend to be
forgotten.

Best,
Dom

--- Sander van Loon <svloon@xs4all.nl> wrote:

>
> Hi all, this is my first post here. I talked with
> Marc Maurer about
> Abiword, and he suggested I posted my suggestions to
> this list. Let me
> start with a thank-you for the developers for
> developing Abiword.
>
> I really appreciate the light-weight-ness of
> Abiword, it takes half the
> time of Open Office to start up. Not only is it
> faster, but it's good to
> see that Abiword has also received more attention
> for usability and
> GNOME integration than Open Office. IMO Abiword has
> a lot of potential,
> but unfortunately the inferior support for MS Word
> docs and OpenDocument
> is a serious problem for me. I understand
> implementing support for those
> is a bit complicated, but when I opened a huge
> report in .doc in
> Abiword, it was unreadible, while OpenOffice
> imported it with reasonable
> quality.
>
> I have a few suggestions for improvement as well.
>
> First, the zoom level of Abiword. This -
> http://www.xs4all.nl/%
> 7Evanlonen/openoffice.jpg - is a screenie of
> OpenOffice on my box.
> compare this with this -
> http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Evanlonen/abiword.jpg -
> Abiword screenshot. In OpenOffice the zoom is at
> 100%. In Abiword, the
> zoom is at 150%, which is too big in my opinion. If
> I set it at 100% in
> Abiword, it is to small, it's smaller than
> OpenOffice at 100%. While
> 100% in OpenOffice is OK for me, 150% or 100% in
> Abiword both aren't
> nice to work with. Maybe this isn't such a serious
> problem and should I
> get used more to Abiword, but I'd like to see the
> default zoom level in
> Abiword more comparable to OpenOffice zoomed at
> 100%.
>
> Second, the aids for displaying the page margins.
> Please look at the
> links to the OpenOffice and Abiword screenies I gave
> above. OpenOffice
> has thin gray lines which display the page margins.
> I think that would
> be a nice feature to have in Abiword as well.
>
> Third, since the recent upgrade GNOME's Bugzilla -
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ - is very pleasant to
> work with. I think it
> would be a good idea if Abiword would switch to
> GNOME's Bugzilla.
>
> Greetings,
> Sander van Loon a.k.a. F for Fragging
>
>

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Received on Thu Jan 26 17:56:31 2006