[sugar] New Abiword build and sugar icons.

[John J5 Palmieri]

Send me a link, I'll test it out and then add it to our builds if
nothing bad occurs.  I will be spinning a last build before I leave at
about 5:00.

On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 13:26 -0500, Jim Gettys wrote:
> 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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John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>