Petition for Ryan/Megabyte405 to finish Abiword
 

K, boyz... Let's all sign up, and encourage Ryan to keep on porting.

I don't know about the rest of you, but a decent word processor is pretty important.

And three cheers for taking the job on... Thanks, Ryan.

Carey

Re: Petition for Ryan/Megabyte405 to finish Abiword
 

Yeah, I´m actually holding my breath on that doc-import-goes-square bugfix to be released "in the next package". I´m about to turn blue...

Re: Petition for Ryan/Megabyte405 to finish Abiword
 

Three oooh-ray for Ryan, plus (as I said elsewhere) a promise for a paypal support, plus ethernal glory... Ryan please post an update!

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I'll be #4. ;)

-T.

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i'll be #5 then.

i'll add that i participate not to put pressure on ryan but to do an empirical study.

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Count me in.

#6

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Leave Ryan alone!

It will get done when it does!

Omega

Re: Petition for Ryan/Megabyte405 to finish Abiword
 

I know what it's like to toil unappreciated, as I'm sure most of us do. For Ryan to take this on is a great thing. I thought a little cheerleading might be nice for a change.

Re: Petition for Ryan/Megabyte405 to finish Abiword
 

Ryan, aka Megabyte405, that's for you: http://Ryan.youaremighty.com :D

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I'm down for a word processor, though I haven't a clue who Ryan is. :)

Re: Petition for Ryan/Megabyte405 to finish Abiword
 

Howabout a little Friday afternoon humour?

Q: What's worse than donating your free time and expertise to create an app for the 770/800 community?

A: This thread.

Mayhaps general paypal donations would act as incentives, but as for petitions, try city hall.

Re: Petition for Ryan/Megabyte405 to finish Abiword
 

I would contribute $'s also.

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I had no idea this would upset so many of you guys.

Sheesh, but you're sensitive.

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I second the donations suggestion.

Re: Petition for Ryan/Megabyte405 to finish Abiword
 

Much needed application I think payment is a better incentive than a petition. Thanks Ryan for all the work you have done so far.

Re: Petition for Ryan/Megabyte405 to finish Abiword
 

Who's upset? I don't see it. :confused:

Anyway, it would be nice to hear Ryan's thoughts. ;)

Re: Petition for Ryan/Megabyte405 to finish Abiword
 

Ok, let me just say, this is the first time I've seen this thread, and actually the first time i've been on ITT in a while - I've been busy with the Summer of Code. As Google is paying me a chunk to hack on AbiCollab, that's what has been taking up my time. I don't know if I've mentioned it here or not, but I know I've told AbiWord folks that I intend to take care of the Maemo port after SoC finishes up (end of the month/monday) and after I get settled again.

Didn't realize this was so pressing to so many people :) I will get it going and get it rocking - made over 90 patches to AbiWord during the Summer of Code and now I'm hooked. It will be a 2.5.x release (probably 2.5.2+updates or 2.5.3) - a developer release, but much improved and probably stabler/faster than 2.4.6 at this point. As I've posted in other places, there are ways to get Abi 2.4.6 to work so-so on the N800, and I've used it that way, but it's certainly not ideal.

I'd like to spend more time hacking, but in addition to being a developer, I'm also a university student, which means that I have classes and bills, which must be attended and paid, respectively. Unfortunately, that sometimes means my Abi-hacking gets bumped in favor of that which will keep me enrolled. If someone is interested in funding a development, feature, build, etc, and thus permit me to bump some spyware removal in favor of coding (please!), please PM me. I'm reluctantly looking into the paypal thing, but it seems as though it may be more overhead/hassle than it's worth. I really prefer a simple $x to do "y" rather than a "here's $z to support your work" - it makes it harder for me to know what I need to do to feel like I deserved $z. Hopefully this makes sense.

I did it again - wrote way too much :) It's coming, petitions are not needed, unless somebody wants to hire a contract programmer. Also, if folks could point other ITT visitors to one of the many Abi threads I've commented on so that I don't have to hit all of them, that would also help free up time :) Rock on!

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Oh, and I forgot to mention. I also plan/hope to get AbiCollab (live, real-time collaboration on word processing documents) working on the Maemo build and interoperable with AbiWord on Windows and Linux (at the same time!)!

Re: Petition for Ryan/Megabyte405 to finish Abiword
 

Great to get your update Ryan! Hope you had all kinds of fun at SoC. Sounds like you have your priorities right as they should be ;)

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That ^ would be HUGE dude...

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Question (slightly off topic) - in an older thread, Ryan said:

"All versions of AbiWord should save to MS Doc just fine - I personally use RTF for anything I have to share, ABW for things I keep to myself. The 2.4.6 build (and the later ones I will make to fix the N800 problems) supports ODT."

I can't find this functionality in abiword on my 770 - no options to save as another format, and loading a .doc file results in ????? instead of text. Sorry if this has been addressed elsewhere, but I couldn't find it. Also thanks for all the hard work and enthusiasm - looking forward to the new release!

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Well interesting, had never tried that before, but it certainly seems as though there is no file-type selector in the save-as box. I wonder if that is an inherent limitation of Hildon or if there's something we can do about that. What I do know is that it will save in the format that you loaded (e.g. open a ODT< is will save it back as an ODT), so ifyou wanted to poorly work around this, you could keep a blank RTF file on hand. Please file this lack of a file type selection mechanism as a bug on http://bugzilla.abisource.com

I know about the ??? in Word docs thing, and a patch has been committed that I'm told should do the trick. The next build should incorporate this fix.

If you find any other issues, please don't hesitate to search and report at http://bugzilla.abisource.com - it's how we can keep track of what needs to be done most easily. File against Front End - Maemo (as the component) if you are in doubt.

Thanks for your contributions!

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I don't know much about Abiword so this will be an ignorant question: can it save docs to a website? For instance, I'm working on a novel and I'd love to keep the source on a web page, and edit it on the go when an idea occurs to me. It would sure be nice to have that option with my N800...

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That my friend, is why the Unix gods invented ftp...

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Yeah, but I was hoping for something more elegant (and automatic) for lazy writers like me.

Re: Petition for Ryan/Megabyte405 to finish Abiword
 

You could do what I do: Mail them to a Gmail account. I've set up a label and a filter for all those pages an snippets I keep jotting down when I'm away from the desktop (which seems to be more rule than exception these days).

I tried using Minimo and Google Docs, because that's indeed more "automatic" (and Dieu knows I'm lazy enough to appreciate automatic), but it's slow as really slow molassis on an N800, so I reverted to my antique copy of Abiword 2.2.7 and good ole' Google Mail.

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Of all the online storage sites out there, I've found that box.net works fine with the default Opera browser on the 800. They offer 1 gig of space for free.

It's what I use when I want to upload/download anything from/to the N800.

Yeah, it's not automatic, but for online storage, it works nicely with the N800.

R.
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And we're off on a tangent ;-P

You want to look at rsync, or just write a shell script to do it. That's the joy of the Nxxx. It's just a Linux tablet computer under the hood. Do what you want.

NOTE: rsync can do a scheduled backup to a remote box. You can schedule a cron job to do it whatever way you want - ftp, rsync, tar, etc. I haven't got to the point where I do anything like that myself, but I'd probably use rsync until I get a better handle on what's available for the Nxxx Linux. I usually prefer to do this stuff with ncftp (nice batch features), but I haven't looked to see if it's available yet.