James Knott wrote: > I have just installed Abiword on my N800. However, I find it is very > unstable. I just have to touch the open document and it will cause > Abiword to crash. Has anyone else experienced this? Is there some way > to make it usable? > > tnx jk > > AbiWord is built for the 770 at this time. Installing the package (by adding the Mistral repository) on an N800 does work, but due to the ABI break between IT2006 and IT2007, there are some problems. Perhaps the most obvious is that if you let the tablet fall asleep with AbiWord open, it will crash when you wake it back up. Additionally (and I think for a similar reason, though perhaps not), AbiWord seems to crash if you click to the right of the text (in the "margin"). I will be working on improving the Maemo port of AbiWord (indeed, these problems are because the app is _very_ Hildonized and so greatly affected by the API/ABI break) and building new version for the N800. However, I am currently working on AbiCollab for the Summer of Code, and so that deadline comes first. Hopefully within a month or two. Until then, knowing those two crash triggers and avoiding them works, if quite inelegant. (Opening DOC files doesn't work either, for an unrelated reason - dodgy iconv on the tablet - but a patch has been committed to the appropriate place, and as far as I know the other present import/export filters, including ODT, should be working) Hope this helps! (If any developers are listening - I'm attempting to get AbiWord 2.5.x working because the structure of the embedded builds changed a lot between 2.4.x and the current development series, so that is where it makes sense to concentrate one's efforts. A reliable source and binary package for armel and x86 of the AbiWord dependencies with the maemo package would be greatly appreciated. To make an AbiWord package for Maemo, read the directions in abiword/src/pkg/maemo/ - the debian packaging/control files are already created. You may email me directly or email the AbiWord developer list.) Ryan -- Ryan Pavlik AbiWord Win32 Platform Maintainer, Art Lead: www.abisource.com AbiWord Community Outreach Project: www.cleardefinition.com/oss/abi/blog/ "Optimism is the father that leads to achievement." -- Helen Keller "The folder structure in a modern Linux distribution such as Ubuntu was largely inspired by the original UNIX foundations that were created by men with large beards and sensible jumpers." -- Jono Bacon, The Ubuntu Guide
