20 Nov 16:10
Re: A few more toolbar buttons for AbiWord?
From: J.M. Maurer <uwog <at> uwog.net>
Subject: Re: A few more toolbar buttons for AbiWord?
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.laptop.olpc.sugar
Date: 2006-11-20 15:10:01 GMT
Subject: Re: A few more toolbar buttons for AbiWord?
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.laptop.olpc.sugar
Date: 2006-11-20 15:10:01 GMT
[snip] > That said, the rich editing UI that we're developing for the notebook is > Javascript-based, and thus isn't usable by regular GTK apps. This is > where you, the AbiWord folks, come in. If you can shrink Abi to an > embeddable GTK widget that speaks Crossmark, that would rock a whole > lot, because it would let us do rich text everywhere -- file > descriptions, e-mails, general annotations, you name it. We could > encourage application developers to make almost every textbox where it > makes any sense be an Abi textbox. > > And that's where I think we have a great place for Abi on the OLPC > desktop. So if this sounds interesting, sure :) > I wouldn't focus too much on the > standalone Abi app; I'd love to see you folks shell out the widget, and > have us integrate it right away. I still think that abicollab will kick anything else's ass with regards to collaborative editing.. but feel free to reinvent the wheel in javascript :) Marc
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