Ryan Pavlik wrote: > 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) > What do you mean by "Hildonized"? -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org>
