[sugar] New Abiword build and sugar icons.

[Jim Gettys]

I leave it up to John Palmieri as to whether it can make it into today's
build.  Whether we have time to test it, is the issue. 
                                - Jim


On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 05:15 +1100, msevior at physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
> > We can't possibly put this into our Friday (today) build with this major
> > a change, nice as it is to pull in Pango for its internationalization.
> > This build is intended to be "big/low risk bug fixes only".  Changing
> > rendering engines, even moving to one that is used elsewhere is a major
> > risk.
> >
> 
> Sorry, I wasn't clear. The rendering engine always used pango. The current
> version uses pango. This version has lots of bugs fixd in it.
> 
> > There probably won't be another build for a couple weeks.
> >
> > Please, next time branch in your source repository for a release, so
> > that key bug fixes can be done without pulling in major new
> > functionality (e.g. Pango support).
> >
> > We *will* want to put the pango version in quickly after as possible
> > after today's build, so that it can have good soak-in before BTest-2;
> > and we'd be happy to make the update available separately from the base
> > system immediately for those who want it.
> 
> You have it now. It is better than before.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Martin
> 
> >                           Best Regards,
> >                                         - Jim Gettys
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 20:15 +1100, msevior at physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>             I've commited a number of fixes to the sugar branch of
> >> abiword
> >> that fixes the home directory issue, updates the AbiWord text
> >> processing to handle all the pango-capable languages and
> >> provides 48x48 pixel icons for AbiWord toolbars. I took the
> >> icons from the tango project.
> >>
> >> Marc (uwog) should be able to provide rpm's within a few hours.
> >>
> >> The new text processing capabilities mean Abiword should in principle be
> >> able  to the right things for a very large fraction of the world's
> >> languages including Arabic and Thai. We would really appreciate feedback
> >> from native speakers and writers in these languages though.
> >>
> >> Regarding the toolabr icons, AbiWord normally uses the gtk-stock icons
> >> so
> >> it is icon themeable. I think a better solution would be for the sugar
> >> project to develop it's own icon theme with the large icons needed for
> >> the
> >> OLPC. This would benefit all applications ported to sugar. I made a
> >> special OLPC hack for this release though.
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >>
> >> Martin
> >>
> >>
> >>
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