Re: AbiWord on code.google.com

Hey all,

You'll catch this on Planet AbiSource, but I posted a status report on
the old blog:

  http://snowedin.net/archives/001051.php

I feel like I've accomplished a good bit of work this summer (less
than I had hoped, however) but irrespective of that, I fully plan on
continuing at my snails pace. Right now I'm working on getting a
pictoral table menu to pop up when one clicks a button on the toolbar
so kids can make tables. Rob's given me some good implementation
advice, I just haven't gotten it working quite yet.

As for screen real-estate.... as I understand it, the full resolution
is grayscale, but the effective resolution in color mode is much
lower. I'd be interested to hear if that's changed.

Best,

Erik

On 9/5/06, Robert Staudinger <robert.staudinger@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/5/06, msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au
> <msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Congrats Erik and Rob!
> >
> > How do you see the project (abi on OLPC) progressing over the next few
> > months?
>
> During the SoC project the OLPC UI approach fundamentally changed
> twice -- from tabbed to fullscreen and then to bottom toolbar. That
> and more generally the fast pace of the project make pretty time
> consuming to keep up and (repeatedly) pull (changed) information from
> the project. Maybe it wouldn't harm letting it mature a bit and then
> ready AbiWord "in one sitting".
>
> > Will Erik still be able to work on it?
> >
> > Also I read that the number of pixels on OLPC is now much greater, 1200 x
> > 938 (I think), do you have plans on how to spend this expanded screen
> > real-estate?
>
> I have not seen or used a physical demo board but AbiWord is using all
> the space the emulator gives it.
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
>
Received on Tue Sep 5 10:16:51 2006