On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 05:13:40PM +1100, Martin Sevior wrote: > See the post from today. > > http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/2005/Mar/0002.html > > Join in. Be part of the solution. As I said we're a grass roots > organisation that responds to real people with real problems. > We're VERY responsive to people with patches. I have made some comments and bugs in Bugzilla in the past, part of which resulted in some things getting fixed, and other ones which have been left for years with "well, none of us who hack on this regularly are CJK users" comments. I know that it's a nasty cycle where CJK users won't use your program so much, which makes it harder for things to get fixed. I also know that all your custom widgets make it difficult to get the same level of support (and I know why you have those custom widgets too). However, I am willing to trust that things will improve, and I look forward to it, as Abiword does have a lot of nice features, as you said. Personally, though, I don't have the time to hack on Abiword now. Still, given all that, OOo right now does use a free license, and FC current attempts to only have one application *in Core* (as opposed to Extras) for each job. And given that, it's hard for me to support Abiword over the equally free OOo *right now* in Core as the default with the lack of workable CJK support. In the future, it might be different, but right now if you're going to choose one, it has to be the one that CJK users can actually use. It's not like being in Extras means not being available at all. (Now gnumeric I like more than the OOo Calc-- but shipping OOo Writer tends to push toward making Calc the default as well.) John Thacker
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