Fwd: Re: Maemo Word Processor

I thought that the dev list would like to see this.
Nokia has a new desktop handheld device based on
GTK+/Gnome, and uses a patched version of AbiWord
2.2.7 as its word processor. More info here:

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/25/139202&tid=100&tid=193&tid=106

What follows is a short conversation with one of
Nokia's developers.

This looks promising :)

Best,
Dom

--- "rodrigo.novo@indt.org.br"
<rodrigo.novo@indt.org.br> wrote:
> Subject: Re: Maemo Word Processor
> Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 12:55:56 -0500
> From: "rodrigo.novo@indt.org.br"
> <rodrigo.novo@indt.org.br>
> To: <hub@figuiere.net>
> CC: <domlachowicz@yahoo.com>,
> <Aldenor.Martins@indt.org.br>
>
> > From: Hubert Figuiere [mailto:hub@figuiere.net]
> > Hi Rodrigo,
>
> Hi Hubert,
>
> > I'm one of the AbiWord maintainer.
>
> I know, I always read your blog on Gnome Planet
> :)
>
> > I downloaded the deb package of Maemo Word
> Processor that I
> > downloaded from
> http://www.indt.org.br/maemo/index.html#abiword
> >
> > I was wondering where we could get the source
> code, and/or the diffs.
>
> Sure.
>
> First of all, I would like to personally
> apologize to you and all the rest of the AbiWord
> team. I sent the source code of the package to our
> web designers, but I guess they were in a bit of a
> hurry, this morning. (to upload the web pages before
> Maemo was announced)
>
> I've just checked, and the source code is already
> uploaded by now, and linked on the web site. (I
> tried to send it to you via email, but the source
> code is too large for that)
>
> > We would be interested in merging the changes back
> to upstream.
>
> Sure. That would be nice! This is our main
> objective right now.
>
> As the Maemo Development Platform was not public
> (until today) we were not able to contact the
> AbiWord team to contribute back our code, but we
> would like to do this as soon as possible. (and
> when/if you feel the code is of acceptable quality,
> of course)
>
> The only reason why we call it "Maemo Word
> Processor" right now, is because we are/were not
> distribution an official version of AbiWord (I mean,
> we weren't even sure if we *could* call it AbiWord)
>
> Right now, the modifications we did are a little
> more than a hack above the Unix layer of the AbiWord
> UI. Though we added a --enable-hildon flag to
> configure (hildon is the name of the gtk-based
> widget set developed by Nokia for the Maemo
> Development Platform), we had to modify a few
> dialogs, to make the application fit inside the
> (very) small screen size.
>
> How do you think it is better for us to further
> discuss the integration of our changes back to the
> AbiWord source tree? I understand that we will need
> to clean up some hacks we had to implement to make
> it work better on Maemo, and we would be glad to
> have the help of the AbiWord team for that, if at
> all possible :)
>
> > Thanks a lot
>
> Thank YOU, for AbiWord :)
>
> Best regards,
>
> Rodrigo
>

                
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